Sunday, June 08, 2025

Lawfare Explains Trump's Legal Maneuvers to Use the National Guard in LA

Chris Mirasola: This is not an invocation of the Insurrection Act. Instead, the president has relied on a far more limited (though also quite old) theory of inherent presidential authority known as the protective power.

Posted by retort at 01:13 PM | 7 COMMENTS | permalink

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National Guard troops have arrived in Los Angeles in response to immigration protests, and a Democratic congresswoman says she's been told to expect "30 days of ICE enforcement."

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"Someone's going to get hurt. Someone's going to get shot. Someone's going to get killed."

The prophetic words of Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling who previously had condemned President Trump for not speaking out against threats made to election officials.

#1 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-08 01:32 PM

#1 oh I thought it was a congressman speaking out about Biden not condemning threats made to SCOTUS.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-06-08 02:12 PM

#1 oh I thought ...

You thought ?

That's funny.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-08 03:41 PM

There were SUVs I've never seen before that had "Federal Protective Services" POLICE on the side of them. Heading towards Pasadena, where I hear a lot of the storm troopers are holed up.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-08 08:38 PM

Oh, and light racks on top.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-08 08:38 PM

Trumpanzee is desperate for a military conflict... not unlike Reagan when he went after Grenada to divert attention from his flagrant incompetence brought on by senility. Trumpansies love them some stupid.

#6 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-06-08 10:00 PM

Trump and his cabal do not know how to back down. They seek to declare some soft of 'victory' instead. Tough to see where they will win this one, without a complete torching of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and a re-design of our nation's flag, to include the visage of a fat orange criminal insurrectionist and golf cheat...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2025-06-09 08:20 AM

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