White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about President #Trump invoking the #InsurrectionAct, a rarely used 19th century law that gives the president the power to deploy active-duty troops inside the U.S. for #lawenforcement purposes, five people with knowledge of the talks told NBC News. Gary Grumbach breaks down what the law would allow Trump to do.
Trump has floated invoking the Insurrection Act. What would it allow him to do?

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