Overview
- In a social media post, the president warned he would "institute the INSURRECTION ACT" unless state leaders halt what he called attacks on ICE personnel.
- The unrest stems from immigration enforcement actions and two ICE-involved shootings, including the fatal killing of Renee Good and a separate wounding of a man alleged to have struck an officer.
- Attorney General Keith Ellison said he will sue to stop any invocation, and Gov. Tim Walz urged de-escalation as DHS reports more than 2,000 arrests in the state since early December.
- The Insurrection Act functions as an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, allowing deployment of federal troops or federalized National Guard to enforce law within the United States.
- Legal experts say the statute has been used about 30 times, most recently in 1992, it does not authorize martial law, its threshold is ambiguous, courts often defer to presidents, and the Act has not been invoked in Minnesota.