{"id":63590,"date":"2026-01-15T21:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/?p=63590"},"modified":"2026-01-15T21:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:01:48","slug":"trump-threatens-to-invoke-insurrection-act-over-unrest-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/trump-threatens-to-invoke-insurrection-act-over-unrest-in-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act over unrest in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if Minnesota officials do not stop what he described as attacks on federal immigration officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don\u2019t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT,\u201d Trump said in a social media <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115899252938886431\">post<\/a> early Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump said the measure would \u201cquickly put an end\u201d to what he described as disorder in Minnesota, adding that \u201cmany Presidents have done [it] before me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The comments come as Minneapolis and surrounding areas have seen repeated incidents involving federal law enforcement, including confrontations linked to immigration enforcement operations, following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has previously raised the possibility of invoking the Insurrection Act in response to protests and legal challenges to federal deployments. In October, he said he would consider using the law if courts, governors, or mayors were \u201cholding us up\u201d from deploying forces to protect federal property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo far it hasn\u2019t been necessary, but we have an Insurrection Act for a reason,\u201d Trump said at the time, adding that he would act if people were being killed or if state or local officials obstructed federal action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to deploy U.S. military forces domestically under limited circumstances, including to suppress rebellion, enforce federal law, or protect civil rights when state authorities are unwilling or unable to act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been invoked only sparingly in modern history, including during the 1992 Los Angeles riots and during school desegregation efforts in the mid-20th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if Minnesota officials do not stop what he described as attacks on federal immigration officers. \u201cIf the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don\u2019t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":63591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,3887,2333,1224,4168,101,151],"class_list":["post-63590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured","tag-insurrection-act","tag-minneapolis-minnesota","tag-minnesota","tag-shooting-of-renee-good","tag-trump-administration","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - 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