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Checked by PolitiFact2 Jun 2020United States War and conflict

Erin Burnett, CNN host

“If President Trump decides to deploy the U.S. military domestically, he would be “mobilizing U.S. military troops on American soil for the first time since 1807.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: The law was signed in 1807, but it was last invoked in 1992, and had been invoked numerous times during the 1950s and 1960s to protect civil rights for black Americans in the South.