Posse Comitatus

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement except when expressly authorized by law. This 143-year-old law embodies an American tradition that sees military interference in civilian affairs as a threat to both democracy and personal liberty. However, recent events have revealed dangerous gaps in the law's coverage that Congress must address.

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-- Brennan Center (@brennancenter.org) Jun 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM

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Trump and MAGA don't need no stinkin' laws...or showers...

#1 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-06-10 08:37 AM | Reply

"This 143-year-old law embodies an American tradition that sees military interference in civilian affairs as a threat to both democracy and personal liberty." Which is exactly highlight the intention of Trump because these protests highlight the lack of necessity and the intentional cruelty of these mass deportations!

#2 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-10 08:42 AM | Reply

#3 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-10 08:46 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

Trump and MAGA don't need no stinkin' laws...

#1 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT

Yes, but....

Expect one or more of them to come here to explain why the law and the Constitution mean that Donald Trump doesn't have to obey the law or the Constitution.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-10 08:48 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Trump is sending an additional 2,000 National Guard to LA because someone critiqued his sending the first 2,000.

They aren't needed. They're another expression of Donald's hurt fee-fees.

Expect another battalion of Marines to be sent to LA for above reasons.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-10 08:54 AM | Reply

There aren't serious gaps in Posse Comitatus, but there's going to be serious consequences for Leftist -------.

#6 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-06-10 09:04 AM | Reply

#6 - bring it on, big mouth. Bring it on.

#7 | Posted by YAV at 2025-06-10 09:05 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

Thank Jove my Grandson finished his Service in the Marines earlier this year. He would have had problems with ------- sending him into the streets of America to abuse Citizens'

Every SCOTUS Judge testified in support of Posse Comitatus.

Looks like obvious perjury during SCOTUS Senate Interviews, should they not slap -------'s wet dreams down in flames.

#8 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-06-10 09:06 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#6
The MAGAt mind in a state of perpetual ignorance-fueled confusion.

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-10 09:08 AM | Reply

Yav ... You guys do not have public support with the rioting. This isn't 2020 no matter how bad you guys wish it to be.

#10 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-06-10 09:09 AM | Reply

They aren't needed. They're another expression of Donald's hurt fee-fees.

He's a big, fat orange man-baby that's never, ever lived up to daddies unrealistic expectations. He's spent his whole life trying to be a "man" - clueless as to what that actually means,

And he's the president who can, legally, send Marines anywhere he wants. Including to LA. Now what the Marines can do once there? They can't do anything against the populace. The question is, is that message being drilled into them on this deployment or not? This can go sideways real fast - which is what that traitor that infests the White House wants.

Sue the FCCK out of Trump and his Admin. End this error.

LOCK HIM UP!

#11 | Posted by YAV at 2025-06-10 09:12 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Yav ... You guys do not have public support with the rioting. This isn't 2020 no matter how bad you guys wish it to be.

There is no rioting. You hyperventilating wus.

Bring it on.
Do it.
Find out.

#12 | Posted by YAV at 2025-06-10 09:14 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#10
Back to Trump's attempted coup resulting in police deaths, since false equivalency is your game: do you favor Trump pardoning folks in LA like he did with the MAGAts who proved themselves traitors?

Just curious.

#13 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-10 09:17 AM | Reply

There aren't serious gaps in Posse Comitatus, but there's going to be serious consequences for Leftist -------.

#6 | POSTED BY BLUEWAFFLES

Hate to break it to you, Buddy, but no one thinks you're a big man.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-10 09:30 AM | Reply

You guys do not have public support with the rioting.

#10 | POSTED BY BLUEWAFFLES

What riot do you think is happening at this moment? The military Trump sent is sitting on their asses.

You people don't have public support for lying, manipulation, power grabs, or dictatorship.

#15 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-10 09:32 AM | Reply

POSTED BY BLUEWAFFLES

Donald Trump intends for American citizens to be murdered on the streets.

If it doesn't work out for him this time, he'll try again.

He'll feel forced to try again from out of sick, sick pride; a real ambition to be dictator; and desperation at a second presidential term that has failed from the start.

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-10 09:35 AM | Reply

They wouldn't stage this show in Houston because the city would explode, and it would be eggs all over Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton's faces.

#17 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-06-10 09:41 AM | Reply

WASHINGTON: After slipping on the steps of Air Force One yet another time, on Monday Donald J. Trump ordered the National Guard to carry him up to his plane.

In an executive order declaring a national emergency, Trump pronounced the metal stairs "An Enemy of the People."

Trump refused to rule out a sweeping ban on stairs, telling reporters, "We're looking into that very strongly."

A guardsman who helped carry Trump was taken aback by his poor physical condition, remarking, "I guess he was in better shape when he boarded Epstein's plane."

(The Borowitz Report)

#18 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-06-10 09:47 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

Democrats argued "states rights" in 1865, 1965 and 2025. I this was settled in 1865.

#19 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-06-10 09:47 AM | Reply

#19 | POSTED BY VISITOR

What did I tell you?

MAGA believes that the Civil War means Donald is allowed to do anything.

#20 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-10 09:50 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"Whiskey Pete" is testifying before Congress this morning at 0930 about the s**tshow the Trumpf junta has inflicted upon the American people and taxpayer.

"Hic!"

#21 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-10 09:51 AM | Reply

I'm hearing more stories from people about losing their jobs or fearing losing their jobs.

Donald Trump is playing Master and Commander in part because he doesn't know what to do about this/won't do anything about this.

#22 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-10 09:59 AM | Reply

This Retort poster is like 4 days behind.

The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement except when expressly authorized by law.

It is authorized by law, when federal government is prevented from enforcing federal law.

#23 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-06-10 10:08 AM | Reply

#23
In what way(s), specifically, does the act differ from the act as noted in the article?
Frankly, I have a feeling the article writer was on the mark.
You?
We shall see.
Thanks.

#24 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-10 10:16 AM | Reply

Wait a minute! Isn't this Taco Tuesday?

#25 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-10 10:38 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#23

---- off idiot.

#26 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-10 10:40 AM | Reply

#23 | Posted by oneironaut

Step out of the echo chamber. It is authorized by law when CONGRESS VOTES TO ALLOW IT. A president can not call up the troops against the American People on his own. That is what dictators do.

#27 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-06-10 10:43 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Galaxiepete just eviscerates your talking point with a quickness.

#28 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-10 10:47 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

56 percent of Americans poll disagree with Trump's actions in LA.

But then, Dictators don' need no stinking public support.

#29 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-10 10:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Nuremberg 2.0 is going to be fun to watch.

#30 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-06-10 11:01 AM | Reply

We can expect that 1Nut will return to the thread and own up to his mistake, right?

#31 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-10 11:03 AM | Reply

We can expect that 1Nut will return to the thread and own up to his mistake, right?
Posted by Corky at 2025-06-10 11:03 AM | Reply

Not a chance in hell of that ever happening

#32 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-10 11:04 AM | Reply

WASHINGTON: In what critics are calling an inflammatory move, Donald J. Trump announced on Tuesday that he was sending Stephen Miller to Los Angeles to act as a human repellant.

"No one empties a room faster than Stephen," Trump said. "He's better than teargas."

But Trump's plan faces a stiff legal challenge from human rights lawyers, who argue that the use of Stephen Miller violates the Geneva Conventions.

(The Borowitz Report)

#33 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-06-10 11:15 AM | Reply

If there is a 'gap' in any law, the Trump Administration seems determined to exploit it for their own nefarious benefit.

#34 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-06-10 11:17 AM | Reply

Yav clearly has some anger management issues he needs to sort out. I'd ask if you beat your spouse there, but I don't want anything happening to her.

#35 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-06-10 11:20 AM | Reply

SO it turns out that the National Guard were sent with no food, no water, and no shelter; they are sleeping basically on top of each other in Detention Center basements and being guarded by, you guessed it, the LA Police... who obviously have better things to do.

This is like all of Trump's fiascos; done to build hatred against 'the Other' just as Despots and Dictators have done to take and keep power for centuries past.

#36 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-10 11:25 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

When LAPD can keep track of their criminals, the Nation Guard has to ...

ibb.co

#37 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-06-10 11:33 AM | Reply

#39 | POSTED BY CRAZY_GOAT

What the president is doing is spoiling for a fight.

Everyone knows why.

#40 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-10 11:44 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Also The BLM rioters have shown up to fight deportations by looting jewelry stores. They're doing their part!

www.instagram.com

#41 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-06-10 11:45 AM | Reply

Just another in the long list of crimes he has committed that the GOP will not hold him accountable for.

ElPolloTaco only breaks the law on days that end in Y

#42 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-10 11:59 AM | Reply

Also The BLM rioters have shown up to fight deportations by looting jewelry stores. They're doing their part!

There were no protests or looting until the NG showed up.

The NG is doing their part!

#43 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-10 12:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#41 | Posted by Bluewaffles

---- off, coward.

#44 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-10 12:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What the fascist MRGA trolls here aren't seeing is the thousands of peaceful protesters in LA County NOT breaking any laws. We don't need the feds here. We don't want the feds here. FDT

#45 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-06-10 12:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Legally, did you guys get your FEMA money yet?

#46 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-06-10 12:31 PM | Reply

----------, did your request for a conjugal visit with Derek Chauvin get approved?

#47 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-10 12:33 PM | Reply

This can go sideways real fast - which is what that traitor that infests the White House wants.

If not for the LAPD it already would have. They are actually the hero's in this story.. so far. How they managed to stabilize the situation in spite of Trumpy's best efforts to destabilize it is a minor miracle.

The longer Trumpy provokes the crowds by sending in more armed military (not trained in crowd control) the greater the chances that one side or the other escalates the situation out of control.

#48 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-10 12:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Legally, did you guys get your FEMA money yet?

#46 | POSTED BY BLUEWAFFLES

Hey ---------, Do you still beat your wife?

#49 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-10 12:50 PM | Reply

There's viral pics of marines sleeping on the floors. Trump botched this entire thing.

#50 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-06-10 12:56 PM | Reply

You guys do not have public support with the rioting.

Hey dumbf^%%, who here is supporting the rioting?

#53 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-10 03:27 PM | Reply

"who here is supporting the rioting?"

Trump.
But he's not here.
Or all there, for that matter.

#54 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-10 03:31 PM | Reply