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Today Trump signed an Executive Order that directs a barrage of federal agency action to escalate his dictatorial takeover of the District of Columbia. But embedded in the EO is a deeply chilling provision that orders Hegseth and the DOD to create specialized military units for rapid deployment across the nation for "quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate." 1/ #USDictator #LawFedi whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac…

Additional Measures to Address the Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia – The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Crime
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He's ordered the creation of standing army units to occupy states across the country. "In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment." 2/
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In his press conference, he announced that he is prepared to deploy the National Guard throughout the country regardless of whether that state's Governor consents. Although the EO references a provision of the law that authorizes some domestic activations of the National Guard, the part of that law he has replied on to take over DC explicitly leaves states in control of Guard troops. .... 3/
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The relevant law is Title 32, Section 502, particularly 502(f). law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/32….

This law is deceptively bland. On its face, it creates a mechanism by which the federal government can fund training of National Guard troops in the states while keeping the Guard under the control of the states. But Trump has used this law to ignore local control in DC and he plans to use it to ignore gubernatorial authority throughout the country. 4/


32 U.S. Code § 502 - Required drills and field exercises

Office of the Law Revision Counsel (LII / Legal Information Institute)

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For an extended, excellent of analysis of 32 U.S. Code, Section 502, see brennancenter.org/our-work/ana….

Bottom line, I, along with many other lawyers and legal scholars, know that Trump's use of his ordered "specialized units" is unlawful. But that makes no difference, because by the time any challenges to their deployments happens, the military will already be in U.S. streets. ... 5/


The President’s Power to Call Out the National Guard Is Not a Blank Check

Domestic deployment under the law has its limits, and for good reason.
Brennan Center for Justice

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Furthermore, the current rogue Supreme Court might well, through some combination of shadow docket rulings and an eventual substantive opinion, ignore the plain meaning of the provision in the context of the overall statute and simply green-light Trump's ordering the National Guard for purposes of law enforcement throughout the country.

That's a military dictatorship accomplished. 6/

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Andreas K
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But will the military comply? It's their posterior that is hanging on the wind for the illegal orders. The pedo in chief is immune. They are not.
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Beachbum
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Where is the judges decision in LA? That may guide the rest of this ridiculous coup.
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Marion Donnelly
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Last October Kamala told us this would happen if Assolini was elected again. She was right. She was right about everything.
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Sergio
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This is what the beginning of a dictatorship looks like!
He is trying to deflect from this 👇🏽
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A man is retired
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If the midterms don't deliver what he wants, and even if they do, the next storming of the Capitol is going to have even less of an organised response.
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Mutter, murmur..4th Reich.. something something Nazi blah blabber....
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Is it too late for an emasculated Congress to put a halt to this?
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@bouriquet Not too late, but with the Republican Fascist Party in control of both houses of Congress, I don't think they will.
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so, ummm
when are people who took the oath going to stand up to this shit. Their oath was to support and defend the CONSTITUTION of the United States against ALL enemies foreign and domestic.

I'm guessing now the oath has been rewritten to something along the lines of "lick the boots of the narcissistic temper tantrum throwing toddler in charge"

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So, TLDR, a new paramilitary force he can deploy anywhere he wants regardless if the state or city wants it.

Cool, cool. Nothing to see here folks. 🙃 😬

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If Democrats take control of the House in 2026 then they NEED to strip these agencies of funding.
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So transparent ‘made up crime emergency’ to take over DC, a trial run. Watch 7 Days in May (movie) but here The President and GOzP MAGA is engineering the coup.

And the country has yet to arrive at ‘uproar’. 😔 Waiting to see some state resistance. Then the country might split as all red State leadership are apparently good with the coup. 🔥

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Trump exhibits all the extreme traits of past dictators, but unfortunately the people who voted for him know nothing about history.
America’s got the president it wanted, and may pay dearly for it.
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The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 is a federal statute that generally prohibits the use of the Army and Air Force to enforce domestic law, except when specifically authorized by the Constitution or a separate Act of Congress. Enacted to prevent the military from acting as a domestic police force, it has exceptions and has been supplemented by other laws, such as the Insurrection Act, which can allow the President to deploy the military in cases of rebellion or insurrection.
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They are getting ready to gave armed soldiers at the polls, just like Hitler.
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