Trump Wrongly Claims He Can Invoke Insurrection Act to Shut Down Courts

In a Fox News interview this past weekend, President Donald Trump claimed that invoking the Insurrection Act would allow him to have “unquestioned power,” and even suggested that it could be used to suspend court cases — despite nothing in the statute indicating as such. Trump has sent National Guard troops to a number of U.S. cities, ostensibly to assist other federal agents carrying out…

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