Trump ponders use of Insurrection Act of 1807

As protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies flared across Los Angeles and its suburbs over the weekend, questions have arisen about whether he might invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, and send active duty U.S. military to quell rioting and vandalism.

The law allows the president to deploy the National Guard or other U.S. military personnel to put down an uprising that interf…