Adam Schiff: “The Insurrection Act was intended to provide the President…”

“… Miller, have dusted off and may be prepared to deploy a different archaic law to form an even more dangerous and expansive legal basis for these deployments. And that is The Insurrection Act was intended to provide the President, in only the rarest and most extreme circumstances, with the ability to federalize our military to respond to and suppress a rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States. It was not enacted to empower the President to deploy the military to pick up trash or to engage in domestic policing or do things that local police or law enforcement could do on their own.” (05:38–05:58)

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