US President Donald Trump and his top aides have increasingly used the term “insurrection,” making it a frequent part of their vocabulary, to describe protests against immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) in cities like Portland and Chicago. Trump has even suggested that he could invoke the "Insurrection Act", a nearly 230-year old law to deploy US troops to quell unrest, bypassing objections from local officials and courts. This has brought renewed attention to a law that grants the president significant emergency powers to use the military on American soil. Speaking from the White House, Trump said, “I really think that’s really criminal insurrection,” referring to the Portland protests, and vowed to restore order. His aide Stephen Miller labelled a judge’s order preventing na

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