First, martial law applies broadly to the whole nation or large regions, whereas the Insurrection Act is typically invoked for localized unrest or rebellions, such as the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

The development came days after interim leader Muhammad Yunus referred to Bangladesh as the “only guardian of the ocean for all this region” and invoked the ‘landlocked’ northeastern ...

This summary is reviewed by TRD Staff. A coalition of international developers has invoked the builder's remedy to propose building 1,021 homes, mostly affordable workforce housing, on the ...

Federal judges in New York and Texas on Wednesday issued orders to temporarily halt the deportation of Venezuelan plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien ...

The actions came after civil liberties lawyers in Texas and New York sued in defense of the Venezuelans who are at risk of removal from the U.S. under a rarely-invoked law that gives the president ...

Meanwhile, the administration is also looking to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged members of the Salvadoran gang MS-13, Todd Lyons, acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pledged that the Trump administration would “take back” the Panama Canal from “China’s influence” on Tuesday during a visit to the key shipping lane.

Focusing on the past 25 years until early March 2025, the EOIR data reflects that the foreign policy deportability ground has been invoked only four times, and only twice has it been the only ...

Citing their own 2021 court case against the prime minister in the European Court of Justice, Repubblika invoked the “non-regression principle”. “The European Court made it clear that ...

The Trump administration last month invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport more than 200 alleged migrant gang members to El Salvador by arguing that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is a ...

A rumor that circulated online in April 2025 claimed U.S. President Donald Trump planned to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 on or just after April 20, an action that would purportedly lead to ...

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