President Trump should consider invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty troops to Los Angeles if the National Guard isn’t able to stamp out violent riots plaguing the city, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) argued in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Tuesday.

Cotton’s call comes almost five years to the date that he made the case for using the 1807 law to quell nationwide riots after the death of George Floyd, during Trump’s first term.

“Violent insurrectionists turned areas of Los Angeles into lawless hellscapes over the weekend, with anarchists setting fire to vehicles, throwing scooters and debris at police, and looting businesses — all while waving foreign flags,” the Arkansas Republican wrote in the WSJ . 3

The anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, Cotton argued, are worse than t

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