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What is the Insurrection Act? And Will Trump Invoke it? We Asked an Expert

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President Trump has said there are some circumstances that he would enact the Insurrection Act including if “people were being killed” or if courts, governors or mayors were holding things up. But what exactly is the Insurrection Act? We asked Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute to explain.

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