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"The Insurrection Act empowers the president to call... the US Armed Forces and the Nat. Guard ... to address ... a conspiracy, in any state, which results in the deprivation of Constitutionally secured rights, and where the state ... refuses to protect said rights." Upvote if you want this next ⬆ (en.wikipedia.org)
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– Hurricane 13 points ago +13 / -0

What about the NDAA? I thought the NDAA passing removed the power of the president to invoke insurrection act?

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– fbeeee 12 points ago +13 / -1

it wasn't in the final bill

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– Hurricane 4 points ago +4 / -0

AWESOME! I've questioned some other people and never got a reply on it. Thats some actually good news for once.

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– thunderstorm 2 points ago +2 / -0

It didn't really do much anyway, just required POTUS to send notification to Congress on why.

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– BeSafeAltAvoidDoxxin 1 point ago +2 / -1

thank God, so there's still a slim chance

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– Greg-2012 1 point ago +1 / -0

Source?

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– FastMike 5 points ago +6 / -1

False

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– Original_Dankster 1 point ago +2 / -1

Yeah I thought the same thing

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