California governor’s office says no need for deployment of the National Guard in L.A and to do so in an unlawful manner seriously breaches state sovereignty and seems intentionally designed to inflame the situation.
@w7voa maybe he’ll have Charlie Kirk back on his podcast to discuss the implications of this for California’s investor class

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Talk's cheap.

@LevZadov @w7voa what's he supposed to do?

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He could order the California National Guard to stand down. It's a toss up whether they'd obey him or Trump. Either way, it would bring this thing to a head. We can't go on like this. The status quo is not sustainable.

@w7voa "California governor’s office says no need for deployment of the National Guard in L.A."
Is it possible for a state (or city-) government to send away the national guard? Can a state government start it's own militia to stop the national guard's actions?
Just asking, I'm not familiar with U.S. law except from very old TV-series.

@zvhxxl @w7voa The National Guard is in fact what's left of the state militias. The state militia can be federalized under limited circumstances, which likely are not met by the current situation.

This, incidentally, is what the US 2nd amendment was actually about, originally. The state ought to be able to raise a militia that is entirely under its control, not shared with the federal government as the guard is, but SCOTUS has made such a hash of the 2nd amendment who knows.

@zvhxxl @w7voa the national guard is the state's armies. They aren't nationalized, contrary to what the name suggests.
@w7voa he needs to say "and so we're assuming control of the guard effective immediately" and not "pretty please do the right thing"

if the guard won't side with you, it's already over
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Honestly, Bob Fergeson's move in WA state to block national guard deployment without WA state asking seems less empty today.

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But will he mobilize the state patrol to arrest the hated ICE agents?

@w7voa Perhaps somebody should point out to him the setting Waymos on fire also tends to inflame the situation...