We strongly oppose President Trump’s public threats and unnecessary acts of aggression against other sovereign nations, including our neighbors in this hemisphere with whom we have had long-standing engagement over time through trade, investment, commerce, and other bilateral and multilateral agreements.

Based on ORL’s principle on the Constitution and the Rule of Law, Our Republican Legacy opposes the unilateral actions taken by President Trump and his administration, which exceed the scope of his authority under the Constitution against civilians on the open seas without any public proof or legal evidence that these individuals were “enemy combatants” of another state or nation who “resorted to armed force” and were engaged in “hostilities” against the United States.

The delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 believed so strongly that oaths are fundamental and indispensable, they explicitly included in the Constitution a requirement that the president-elect take “the following  “Oath or Affirmation” before assuming the office of President: “I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of th

Presidents of both political parties have invoked the Insurrection Act in limited, unique situations. Presidents George Washington and John Adams invoked it to suppress organized rebellions against federal authority. Abraham Lincoln used it during the American Civil War and Ulysses S. Grant used it in 1870 to suppress the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).