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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump says invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act, which permits a president to deploy military inside
"As we speak, I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults, and the wanton destruction of property," he said. "We will end it now."
He called on governors to use their National Guard units to "dominate the streets" and said he would deploy the active duty military if governors failed to use the National Guard more forcefully.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/national-guard-troops-deployed-white-house-trump-calls/story?id=71004151
FarPoint
(12,373 posts)tRump has placed the city, our Capitol in danger....
albacore
(2,399 posts)crazylikafox
(2,756 posts)albacore
(2,399 posts)Horse, rider, or protestor gets killed.
Bad shit.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 forbids use of federal troops as domestic law enforcement.
Sending federal troops into a state without approval will basically be an illegal invasion.
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)This is my biggest concern.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)They can refuse to request them.
sarisataka
(18,655 posts)And if you think it through it is obvious that a state's approval is idea but not mandatory