Trump Hints At Expanded Military Role Within The Country. A Legacy Law Could Let Him. - RocketNews

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : One of its few guardrails merely requires the president to request that the participants disperse."The principal constraint on the president's use of the Insurrection Act is basically political, that presidents don't want to be the guy who sent tanks rolling down Main Street," said Joseph Nunn, a national security expert with the Brennan Center for Justice.
48% : "There's not much really in the law to stay the president's hand.
47% : Nunn said it's an amalgamation of different statutes enacted between then and the 1870s, a time when there was little in the way of local law enforcement."It
46% : AdvertisementPresidents have issued a total of 40 proclamations invoking the law, some of those done multiple times for the same crisis, Nunn said.
40% : It also is one of the most substantial exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act, which generally prohibits using the military for law enforcement purposes.
37% : Attempts to invoke the Insurrection Act and use the military for domestic policing would likely elicit pushback from the Pentagon, where the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is Gen. Charles Q. Brown.
33% : Donald Trump has spoken openly about his plans should he win the presidency, including using the military at the border and in cities struggling with violent crime.via Associated PressA law first crafted in the nation's infancy would give Trump as commander in chief almost unfettered power to do so, military and legal experts said in a series of interviews.
25% : Lyndon Johnson invoked it three times -- in Baltimore, Chicago and Washington -- in response to the unrest in cities after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.During the Civil Rights era, Presidents Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower used the law to protect activists and students desegregating schools.

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