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Opinion: Can troops be deployed to the polls should the worst occur on Election Day?

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Donald Trump suggested that U.S. armed forces could be deployed against “the enemy within” on Election Day .

John Sutter : Many have worried about the potential for civil unrest on election Day and its aftermath.

If unrest were sufficiently extreme, the president or state governors might seek to deploy troops to assist law enforcement with regaining order.

But would it be legal?.

Claire Finkelstein is the Algernon Biddle professor of law and professor of philosophy, as well as faculty director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, University of Pennsylvania . Brenner Fissell is professor of law at Villanova University and was the Class of 1964 Fellow at the Stockdale Ethics Center , U.S. Naval Academy. Copyright 2024 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to The Hill ..

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