...laws of the host state should confer VIII. FEDERAL AID Under the Posse Comitatus Act it is unlawful, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Acts of Congress, to use any part of the Army or the Air Force to execute the laws. Additionally, Federal...

...except that the maximum fine shall be $5000. "§ 987. Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances...authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, knowingly uses any t»art of the Army or the Ai'r Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute...

...posse comitatus act of 1878 (18 USC Section 1385, which provides fines and criminal penalities for "[w]hoever, except in cases and under circumstances...a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws . . ." This act was passed specifically to end the use of federal troops as informal auxiliaries of...

...Act [18 USC § 1385], for example, prohibits the use of military forces "to execute the laws * * * except in cases and under circumstances expressly...authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress." One federal court has construed that statute "as expressing the inherent antipathy of the American...

...Act [18 USC § 1385], for example, prohibits the use of military forces "to execute the laws * * * except in cases and under circumstances expressly...authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress." One federal court has construed that statute "as expressing the inherent antipathy of the American...

...use of any part of the Army or Air Force "as a possee comitatus or otherwise to execute the law . . . except in cases and under circumstances expressly...authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress." The legislative history of this statute is fully revealed in the opinion of United States District...

...solely to the objects for which they are respectively made." The second statutes ,18 USC 1385, reads: "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances...comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." could provide "door-to-door"...

...Reconstruction Era statute forbids the use of military troops as a posse comitatus: IS USC i 1385: "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances...comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined not more than 110,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." Finally, there are two specialized...

...federal troops by United States marshals, inter alia, to enforce the Reconstruction Acts. The Act reads, "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances...of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined not more than $10,000...

...the one hand, the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 prohibits the military from "executing the law . . . except in cases and under circumstances expressly...authorized by the Constitution or act of Congress." 1IJ One such statutory exception, which Congress recognized in its debates on the 1878 Act,234 was...