Day 1,784: Insurrection Act
Mr Trump has said he would do away with all that, yet any would-be Caesar who invoked emergency powers or the Insurrection Act would still have to overcome the independence of the courts.
Artwork of the day
The Insurrection
Honore DaumierDate:c.1852 - c.1858Style:RealismGenre:genre paintingMedia:oil, canvasLocation:Philips Collection, Washington, DC, US
Word of the day
Insurrection Act: a United States federal law[1] that empowers the president of the United States to deploy U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion.
insurrection: an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence:
Quote of the day
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
― Mao Tse-tung