10 U.S.C. § 252 — Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority

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The President may act if rebellion or unlawful resistance blocks normal enforcement of federal law. He may call state militia into federal service. He may also use the armed forces, as needed, to enforce the law or stop the rebellion.

Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or a rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce U.S. laws in any state through the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the President may call into federal service that state's militia, and may use the armed forces, as much as the President considers necessary to enforce those laws or suppress the rebellion.

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Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.

Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 15, § 332; Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title X, § 1057(a)(2), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3440; renumbered § 252, Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title XII, § 1241(a)(2), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2497.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041
2006Amended · Pub. L. 109-163 · 119 Stat. 3440
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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