Will Scharf, the White House staff secretary, wrote a secret memo to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, warning ...

JD Vance pushed Trump to invoke Insurrection Act to crush Minneapolis protests, book claims - VP reportedly urged the ...

Secret memos show that the White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit habeas ...

Vance also believed invoking the law would send a “message” that “paid agitators could not get away with disrupting ICE ...

This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on June 15, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. A few days after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...

Protests in Los Angeles are entering their fourth day over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. President Donald Trump, over the weekend, called protesters "violent, insurrectionist mobs" ...

A recent court ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, has led him to consider invoking the Insurrection Act, as he discussed with reporters ...

President Donald Trump floated the possibility of invoking the Insurrection Act - one of the White House’s most potent emergency powers - once again this week. The centuries-old law enables a ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, allowing him to deploy troops as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement persist in Minneapolis.Trump made ...