Jackie Calmes: Trump promises power grabs and vengeance if he wins in 2024. Here's the plan
In the wake of this week's terrifying news of the New York Times/Siena College polls showing Donald Trump beating President Joe Biden in must-win battleground states, keep in mind two words and spread them: Insurrection Act.
It's been 31 years since a president and dispatched troops domestically to enforce federal law. That's the longest stretch of nonuse in the Insurrection Act's roughly 240-year history, befitting the disquieting power it confers. Back then, President George H.W. Bush sent the military, at the request of California Gov. Pete Wilson, to quell the in Los Angeles after four police officers were acquitted for
