President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word “insurrection” more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland.

Trump’s Insurrection Act option, Pritzker says Guard troops are ‘props and pawns,’ Pentagon pulls back on press restrictions.

Experts disagree on whether the Democrat-blaming language on the website of HUD and various other government agencies reaches the threshold of violating the 1939 Hatch Act, which restricts certain political activities by federal employees. Kathleen Clark, a government ethics lawyer and law professor at Washington University, argues it does.

The Mann Act makes it illegal to transport someone across state lines for the purpose of prostitution or other illegal sex acts.

Earlier on Monday, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office he might invoke the Insurrection Act of 1792, which would allow troops to directly participate in civilian law enforcement, for which there is little recent precedent.