A president also can invoke the #InsurrectionAct to deploy active-duty #troops to perform law enforcement duties in the US, but such an act would be politically polarizing & trigger alarm in the #Pentagon. #Trump flirted with the idea in 2020, during unrest following the #police murder of #GeorgeFloyd in Minneapolis.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #NationalGuard #military #immigration #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny

Harbourt argues that the plain text of the statute [#Title10] “through the governor” requires consent or at least consultation with the #governor for the president to federalize the #state #NationalGuard.

He also says other statutes such as the #InsurrectionAct exclude the phrase “through the governor” which implies congress intended a minimum of consultation.

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#Trump #law #judiciary #PosseComitatusAct #NewsomVTrump #democracy #RightToProtest #California #immigration
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/12406

One of the problems with doing antifascist analysis while the Trumpenreich appears to be going for the full Pinochet experience, is that whenever you're right about what these nazis are trying to do, it's no reason to celebrate. I wrote a bit about Pete Hegseth's recent testimony during a Congressional hearing and why what he described there means we might already be looking at the Klepto Kaiser's dictatorship in real time.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/06/13/nina-bytes-a-portable-pork-reich-dictatorship/

Nina-Bytes: A Portable Pork Reich Dictatorship

"To completely understand what Trump’s crusader Secretary of Defense is getting at here, you have to place it in the larger context of the regime’s fascist mass deportation project, and the conditions which administration officials, including President Trump himself have outlined to “justify” escalation and additional military involvement. Crucially, this includes accounting for the Trump regime’s ability to coordinate multiple security forces, including the ICE Gestapo, the Kash Patel-run FBI, and ideologically sympathetic local law enforcement agencies. With Hegseth’s proposal in place, and a little cooperation among Trump-loyal actors, the regime can both cause the inciting incidents that allow them to summon the Army to a given location, and then use those military forces to essentially enforce Trump’s (often illegal) policies even over the objections of local elected officials."

#Fascism #Trump #StephenMiller #InvasionOfLA #USPol #Dictatorship #PeteHegseth #PoliceSstate #InsurrectionAct #USCongress #CivilRights

In the final year of his first term, #Trump wanted to invoke the #InsurrectionAct to send active-duty #troops into the streets of #cities where #protests against the murder of #GeorgeFloyd had become violent, only to be rebuffed by Mark T. Esper, his #defense secretary, & Gen. Mark A. Milley, his chair of the #JointChiefs of Staff.

#AmericanAutocracy #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #propaganda

@spiegelmama

#USpol

Yes, I can see why these examples come to mind. Also, while federalizing the #NationalGuard has (sensible) legal precents, sending elite combat groups (#Marines) to a #US city has not. This is not a #CivilWar (yet.)

I and others have long been awaiting the invocation of the #InsurrectionAct. #LA could prove a testing ground.
#POTUS and several of his cabinet are waging war on political dissidents, possibly soon not only rethorically.
As I wrote yesterday, this is 1933/84