The President shall be Commander in Chief...of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.... The Framers of the Constitution crafted a complex ...

provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively ...

The group saw local police as "foot soldiers ... a conspiracy that they hoped would result in a war against the United States government. They allegedly decided they would kill a local law ...

said police and the group's spokesperson. The spokesperson and two Iraqi militia commanders accused the United States of carrying out the attack and threatened to retaliate. "We will retaliate and ...

will suppress the insurrection to bring this district back into the United States control. Alexander Randles is a member of the unorganized militia group. Alexander Randle will publicly assemble ...