This is part of what the appeals court wrote in their decision not to rescind the lower court's order against trump deploying troops.
So he's taking it to the supreme court.
There is zero ambiguity here: Political opposition is not rebellion.
We'll see how fucked we are when they rule on that.
"Political opposition is not rebellion. A protest does not become a rebellion merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized (or) call for significant changes to the structure of the U.S. government."