WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin joined other Democrats in calling for reforms to a more than 200-year-old law that he says President Donald Trump can use to justify "dangerous executive overreach."

Durbin voiced support for overhauling the Insurrection Act , which allows the president to dispatch active duty military in the country when a state is unable to put down an insurrection or is defying federal law.

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President Trump has floated invoking the Insurrection Act throughout his first year back in office as a means for sending troops to mostly Democratic-controlled cities and states to combat crime.

Durbin argued on the Senate floor that the law in its current form might be used by Trump to sow further chaos in states like Illinois, where his administrat

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