As the Posse Comitatus Act has been interpreted by the courts, civilian law-enforcement officials cannot make "direct active use" of military personnel, including using federal military forces, over their citizens to "regulatory, prescriptive, or compulsory authority," according to the Congressional Research Service.

Trump remarked that he was willing to invoke the act 'if it was necessary' during setbacks to his deployment of federal troops to cities.

The Trump administration has floated the idea of using the Insurrection Act to justify sending federal troops to cities.

After an impassioned set of arguments Wednesday over the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the question is whether Justice Brett Kavanaugh is willing to completely dismantle a law intended to ensure equal voting power for Blacks and other racial minorities.

Brand, the Penn State Dickinson Law professor, told NPR that, as recipients of federal money, airports may face prohibitions on how to use that funding and that refusing to play the video could insulate them from future legal issues. “They just don't want to threaten their funding,” Brand said.

The Insurrection Act would allow the president to deploy the U.S. military domestically for law enforcement purposes.

In a Department of Homeland Security video, Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown. Law and ethics experts say it violates the Hatch Act, but there are rarely serious consequences.

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n

Vance also got into heated exchange with ABC host over $50,000 bag of cash border czar Tom Homan was allegedly caught on video accepting

If the bill becomes law, Pennsylvania would be one of just a few states in the U.S. that requires high schools to have naloxone on hand in case of overdose.