10 U.S.C. § 251 — Federal aid for State governments

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If a state faces an insurrection against its own government, the President may send help. The state's legislature — or governor, if the legislature can't meet — must request it first. The President may call up militia from other states and use the armed forces as needed.

Whenever a state faces an insurrection against its own government, the President may act — but only if that state's legislature asks for help, or its governor asks if the legislature cannot be convened. Once asked, the President may call into federal service the militia from other states, in whatever numbers that state requested, and may also use the armed forces, as much as the President considers necessary to suppress the insurrection.

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Whenever there is an insurrection in any State against its government, the President may, upon the request of its legislature or of its governor if the legislature cannot be convened, call into Federal service such of the militia of the other States, in the number requested by that State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to suppress the insurrection.

Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 15, § 331; renumbered § 251, Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title XII, § 1241(a)(2), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2497.)

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1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041
2016Amended · Pub. L. 114-328 · 130 Stat. 2497

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 1041 on 1956-08-10.

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