President Donald Trump’s attorney Jenna Ellis said she opposes the use of the more than 200-year-old Insurrection Act as the president continues to challenge the result of the Nov. 3 election.
The 1807 law allows a president to deploy the U.S. armed forces to deal with civil disorder, an insurrection, or rebellion. It also allows the president to address domestic violence or an unlawful conspiracy in any state that results in the deprivation of Constitutional rights that a state fails to protect.
