J.D. Vance: ‘Right Now, We Don’t Think That We Need’ to Invoke the Insurrection Act Over Anti-ICE Riots

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VANCE: “I did not talk to him today. I talked to some of his colleagues. You know, your question on the Insurrection Act is interesting. I’ve tried to understand this as well as I possibly could, and my understanding is what the Insurrection Act, would invoking the Insurrection Act, would allow the federal government to do is that it would allow the federal government to use the military for local law enforcement operations. Right now we don’t think that we need that. Now, the president could change his mind. Of course, things could get worse. But right now we think that federal law enforcement officers do the job of federal law enforcement. Now, what I do worry about, again, is that the chaos gets worse, if more and more ICE agents are getting assaulted, if other law enforcement officers start getting assaulted, that would be a real problem. But again, we have so much federal law enforcement resources here right now.”