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The use of the insurrection act in U.S. history

Here & Now’s Indira Lakshmanan talks with Julian Zelizer, a historian at Princeton University, about the Insurrection Act and why, historically, presidents have been reluctant to use it.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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