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Trump’s Election Speech Cannot Override the Constitution

https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/elections/trumps-election-speech/

Trump’s Election Speech Cannot Override the Constitution

https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/elections/trumps-election-speech/

Trump’s Election Speech Cannot Override the Constitution

https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/elections/trumps-election-speech/

Trump’s Election Speech Cannot Override the Constitution

https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/elections/trumps-election-speech/

Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept

Mike Cone

“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)

These words still resonate today.

In the wake of our celebration of the 250th birthday of our independence, let us not forget the ugly truths in the birth and history of this nation. To wash over these truths, as our current administration is wont to do, is tantamount to erasing that part of our past which we should strive to learn from, and to better ourselves as a people, to truly become that nation where the words penned by Thomas Jefferson are not just hollow mockery, but true:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the unalienable rights bestowed upon us. These rights are not to be infringed upon for any reason, whether it be race, color, ethnicity, religious beliefs or social status. For this to be true, we as a people need to understand and accept that indeed “ALL” men are created equal. In this regard, we have failed as a nation time and time again. There are numerous examples of our nation suppressing the civil liberties of the many throughout our history: chattel slavery, the Tulsa Race Massacre, forced dispossession of ancestral Native American lands, Selma, Alabama, Jim Crow laws, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment, Kent State, the Patriot Act, just to name a few. Hell, even Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.

My point in all this is we need to do better. It is morally important that we learn from our past and not ignore or erase it just because at times it can be ugly and messy. We need to continue to move forward, toward morality and virtue, because virtue will always prevail.

Our current president is unwilling in this regard. 

President Trump is the converse of morality and virtue and continually seems to move us backward with his version of revisionist history, distorting, altering and even falsifying historical evidence to fit his agenda. He is forever suppressing or attempting to suppress the civil liberties of those who oppose him. He has actively supported and empowered local governments to ban and remove books from public institutions. He has removed or altered exhibits, plaques and monuments from our National Parks, exhibits he terms “inappropriately disparaging to Americans past or living.” These exhibits include the nation’s first executive mansion, which detailed the nine people enslaved by George Washington; the Bunker Hill Monument, to eliminate language he deemed contrary to founding principles; and locations highlighting Japanese American internment and Native American conflicts. He has sent federal troops into our cities in direct defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act. He has allowed his defense secretary, who some call a Christian White Nationalist, to deny high-ranking promotions to senior Army and Navy officers, the majority being women and minorities, and to intervene in a Navy one-star admiral promotion list, removing nine highly vetted officers. The final list of 22 nominees contained zero women and only two non-white officers. Finally, his immigration policies appear to be an obvious attempt to rid the country of Black and Brown people. This is just a small sample of Trump’s penchant for authoritarianism and what this author feels is a deep hatred and disdain for anyone other than his own race. Donald Trump is the ideological antithesis to the phrase “all men are created equal.”

With that said, I was having a conversation with my good friend Nick Allison, an Army combat veteran and fellow Chaos Section contributor, the other day and mentioned my feelings of anger and visceral disgust for our current administration, so much so that I could not find a reason to celebrate our 250 years of independence, particularly as a veteran. I’ll end with Nick’s response:

“You know what? I think we can always find a reason to celebrate, regardless of the current occupant in the Oval Office, because there are always things and ideas and people worth celebrating. This is still a great country with great people and a wonderfully unique experiment in constitutional representative freedom. It gets messy and sometimes runs off the rails, but that’s kind of the whole point of the experiment: we’re a nation of people governing ourselves, which means it’s on us to correct course when things go sideways. Most of human history has been kings, monarchs and strongmen who never had to answer to anybody. Making it 250 years as a self-correcting experiment, messy and beautiful and stupid and wonderful all at once, is reason enough to celebrate. Don’t let one egotistical, narcissistic old man who will be out of office in a couple years, dead within ten, take that away from you.”

Mike Cone is a Marine Corps infantry veteran who served as a mortarman and forward observer in Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines. “Hollow Mockery” is his first piece for The Chaos Section. He lives on Long Island with his wife Cynthia.

Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept

Mike Cone

“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)

These words still resonate today.

In the wake of our celebration of the 250th birthday of our independence, let us not forget the ugly truths in the birth and history of this nation. To wash over these truths, as our current administration is wont to do, is tantamount to erasing that part of our past which we should strive to learn from, and to better ourselves as a people, to truly become that nation where the words penned by Thomas Jefferson are not just hollow mockery, but true:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the unalienable rights bestowed upon us. These rights are not to be infringed upon for any reason, whether it be race, color, ethnicity, religious beliefs or social status. For this to be true, we as a people need to understand and accept that indeed “ALL” men are created equal. In this regard, we have failed as a nation time and time again. There are numerous examples of our nation suppressing the civil liberties of the many throughout our history: chattel slavery, the Tulsa Race Massacre, forced dispossession of ancestral Native American lands, Selma, Alabama, Jim Crow laws, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment, Kent State, the Patriot Act, just to name a few. Hell, even Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.

My point in all this is we need to do better. It is morally important that we learn from our past and not ignore or erase it just because at times it can be ugly and messy. We need to continue to move forward, toward morality and virtue, because virtue will always prevail.

Our current president is unwilling in this regard. 

President Trump is the converse of morality and virtue and continually seems to move us backward with his version of revisionist history, distorting, altering and even falsifying historical evidence to fit his agenda. He is forever suppressing or attempting to suppress the civil liberties of those who oppose him. He has actively supported and empowered local governments to ban and remove books from public institutions. He has removed or altered exhibits, plaques and monuments from our National Parks, exhibits he terms “inappropriately disparaging to Americans past or living.” These exhibits include the nation’s first executive mansion, which detailed the nine people enslaved by George Washington; the Bunker Hill Monument, to eliminate language he deemed contrary to founding principles; and locations highlighting Japanese American internment and Native American conflicts. He has sent federal troops into our cities in direct defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act. He has allowed his defense secretary, who some call a Christian White Nationalist, to deny high-ranking promotions to senior Army and Navy officers, the majority being women and minorities, and to intervene in a Navy one-star admiral promotion list, removing nine highly vetted officers. The final list of 22 nominees contained zero women and only two non-white officers. Finally, his immigration policies appear to be an obvious attempt to rid the country of Black and Brown people. This is just a small sample of Trump’s penchant for authoritarianism and what this author feels is a deep hatred and disdain for anyone other than his own race. Donald Trump is the ideological antithesis to the phrase “all men are created equal.”

With that said, I was having a conversation with my good friend Nick Allison, an Army combat veteran and fellow Chaos Section contributor, the other day and mentioned my feelings of anger and visceral disgust for our current administration, so much so that I could not find a reason to celebrate our 250 years of independence, particularly as a veteran. I’ll end with Nick’s response:

“You know what? I think we can always find a reason to celebrate, regardless of the current occupant in the Oval Office, because there are always things and ideas and people worth celebrating. This is still a great country with great people and a wonderfully unique experiment in constitutional representative freedom. It gets messy and sometimes runs off the rails, but that’s kind of the whole point of the experiment: we’re a nation of people governing ourselves, which means it’s on us to correct course when things go sideways. Most of human history has been kings, monarchs and strongmen who never had to answer to anybody. Making it 250 years as a self-correcting experiment, messy and beautiful and stupid and wonderful all at once, is reason enough to celebrate. Don’t let one egotistical, narcissistic old man who will be out of office in a couple years, dead within ten, take that away from you.”

Mike Cone is a Marine Corps infantry veteran who served as a mortarman and forward observer in Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines. “Hollow Mockery” is his first piece for The Chaos Section. He lives on Long Island with his wife Cynthia.

Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept

Mike Cone

“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)

These words still resonate today.

In the wake of our celebration of the 250th birthday of our independence, let us not forget the ugly truths in the birth and history of this nation. To wash over these truths, as our current administration is wont to do, is tantamount to erasing that part of our past which we should strive to learn from, and to better ourselves as a people, to truly become that nation where the words penned by Thomas Jefferson are not just hollow mockery, but true:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the unalienable rights bestowed upon us. These rights are not to be infringed upon for any reason, whether it be race, color, ethnicity, religious beliefs or social status. For this to be true, we as a people need to understand and accept that indeed “ALL” men are created equal. In this regard, we have failed as a nation time and time again. There are numerous examples of our nation suppressing the civil liberties of the many throughout our history: chattel slavery, the Tulsa Race Massacre, forced dispossession of ancestral Native American lands, Selma, Alabama, Jim Crow laws, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment, Kent State, the Patriot Act, just to name a few. Hell, even Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.

My point in all this is we need to do better. It is morally important that we learn from our past and not ignore or erase it just because at times it can be ugly and messy. We need to continue to move forward, toward morality and virtue, because virtue will always prevail.

Our current president is unwilling in this regard. 

President Trump is the converse of morality and virtue and continually seems to move us backward with his version of revisionist history, distorting, altering and even falsifying historical evidence to fit his agenda. He is forever suppressing or attempting to suppress the civil liberties of those who oppose him. He has actively supported and empowered local governments to ban and remove books from public institutions. He has removed or altered exhibits, plaques and monuments from our National Parks, exhibits he terms “inappropriately disparaging to Americans past or living.” These exhibits include the nation’s first executive mansion, which detailed the nine people enslaved by George Washington; the Bunker Hill Monument, to eliminate language he deemed contrary to founding principles; and locations highlighting Japanese American internment and Native American conflicts. He has sent federal troops into our cities in direct defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act. He has allowed his defense secretary, who some call a Christian White Nationalist, to deny high-ranking promotions to senior Army and Navy officers, the majority being women and minorities, and to intervene in a Navy one-star admiral promotion list, removing nine highly vetted officers. The final list of 22 nominees contained zero women and only two non-white officers. Finally, his immigration policies appear to be an obvious attempt to rid the country of Black and Brown people. This is just a small sample of Trump’s penchant for authoritarianism and what this author feels is a deep hatred and disdain for anyone other than his own race. Donald Trump is the ideological antithesis to the phrase “all men are created equal.”

With that said, I was having a conversation with my good friend Nick Allison, an Army combat veteran and fellow Chaos Section contributor, the other day and mentioned my feelings of anger and visceral disgust for our current administration, so much so that I could not find a reason to celebrate our 250 years of independence, particularly as a veteran. I’ll end with Nick’s response:

“You know what? I think we can always find a reason to celebrate, regardless of the current occupant in the Oval Office, because there are always things and ideas and people worth celebrating. This is still a great country with great people and a wonderfully unique experiment in constitutional representative freedom. It gets messy and sometimes runs off the rails, but that’s kind of the whole point of the experiment: we’re a nation of people governing ourselves, which means it’s on us to correct course when things go sideways. Most of human history has been kings, monarchs and strongmen who never had to answer to anybody. Making it 250 years as a self-correcting experiment, messy and beautiful and stupid and wonderful all at once, is reason enough to celebrate. Don’t let one egotistical, narcissistic old man who will be out of office in a couple years, dead within ten, take that away from you.”

Mike Cone is a Marine Corps infantry veteran who served as a mortarman and forward observer in Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines. “Hollow Mockery” is his first piece for The Chaos Section. He lives on Long Island with his wife Cynthia.

Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept

Mike Cone

“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)

These words still resonate today.

In the wake of our celebration of the 250th birthday of our independence, let us not forget the ugly truths in the birth and history of this nation. To wash over these truths, as our current administration is wont to do, is tantamount to erasing that part of our past which we should strive to learn from, and to better ourselves as a people, to truly become that nation where the words penned by Thomas Jefferson are not just hollow mockery, but true:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the unalienable rights bestowed upon us. These rights are not to be infringed upon for any reason, whether it be race, color, ethnicity, religious beliefs or social status. For this to be true, we as a people need to understand and accept that indeed “ALL” men are created equal. In this regard, we have failed as a nation time and time again. There are numerous examples of our nation suppressing the civil liberties of the many throughout our history: chattel slavery, the Tulsa Race Massacre, forced dispossession of ancestral Native American lands, Selma, Alabama, Jim Crow laws, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment, Kent State, the Patriot Act, just to name a few. Hell, even Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.

My point in all this is we need to do better. It is morally important that we learn from our past and not ignore or erase it just because at times it can be ugly and messy. We need to continue to move forward, toward morality and virtue, because virtue will always prevail.

Our current president is unwilling in this regard. 

President Trump is the converse of morality and virtue and continually seems to move us backward with his version of revisionist history, distorting, altering and even falsifying historical evidence to fit his agenda. He is forever suppressing or attempting to suppress the civil liberties of those who oppose him. He has actively supported and empowered local governments to ban and remove books from public institutions. He has removed or altered exhibits, plaques and monuments from our National Parks, exhibits he terms “inappropriately disparaging to Americans past or living.” These exhibits include the nation’s first executive mansion, which detailed the nine people enslaved by George Washington; the Bunker Hill Monument, to eliminate language he deemed contrary to founding principles; and locations highlighting Japanese American internment and Native American conflicts. He has sent federal troops into our cities in direct defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act. He has allowed his defense secretary, who some call a Christian White Nationalist, to deny high-ranking promotions to senior Army and Navy officers, the majority being women and minorities, and to intervene in a Navy one-star admiral promotion list, removing nine highly vetted officers. The final list of 22 nominees contained zero women and only two non-white officers. Finally, his immigration policies appear to be an obvious attempt to rid the country of Black and Brown people. This is just a small sample of Trump’s penchant for authoritarianism and what this author feels is a deep hatred and disdain for anyone other than his own race. Donald Trump is the ideological antithesis to the phrase “all men are created equal.”

With that said, I was having a conversation with my good friend Nick Allison, an Army combat veteran and fellow Chaos Section contributor, the other day and mentioned my feelings of anger and visceral disgust for our current administration, so much so that I could not find a reason to celebrate our 250 years of independence, particularly as a veteran. I’ll end with Nick’s response:

“You know what? I think we can always find a reason to celebrate, regardless of the current occupant in the Oval Office, because there are always things and ideas and people worth celebrating. This is still a great country with great people and a wonderfully unique experiment in constitutional representative freedom. It gets messy and sometimes runs off the rails, but that’s kind of the whole point of the experiment: we’re a nation of people governing ourselves, which means it’s on us to correct course when things go sideways. Most of human history has been kings, monarchs and strongmen who never had to answer to anybody. Making it 250 years as a self-correcting experiment, messy and beautiful and stupid and wonderful all at once, is reason enough to celebrate. Don’t let one egotistical, narcissistic old man who will be out of office in a couple years, dead within ten, take that away from you.”

Mike Cone is a Marine Corps infantry veteran who served as a mortarman and forward observer in Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines. “Hollow Mockery” is his first piece for The Chaos Section. He lives on Long Island with his wife Cynthia.

Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept

Mike Cone

“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)

These words still resonate today.

In the wake of our celebration of the 250th birthday of our independence, let us not forget the ugly truths in the birth and history of this nation. To wash over these truths, as our current administration is wont to do, is tantamount to erasing that part of our past which we should strive to learn from, and to better ourselves as a people, to truly become that nation where the words penned by Thomas Jefferson are not just hollow mockery, but true:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the unalienable rights bestowed upon us. These rights are not to be infringed upon for any reason, whether it be race, color, ethnicity, religious beliefs or social status. For this to be true, we as a people need to understand and accept that indeed “ALL” men are created equal. In this regard, we have failed as a nation time and time again. There are numerous examples of our nation suppressing the civil liberties of the many throughout our history: chattel slavery, the Tulsa Race Massacre, forced dispossession of ancestral Native American lands, Selma, Alabama, Jim Crow laws, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment, Kent State, the Patriot Act, just to name a few. Hell, even Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.

My point in all this is we need to do better. It is morally important that we learn from our past and not ignore or erase it just because at times it can be ugly and messy. We need to continue to move forward, toward morality and virtue, because virtue will always prevail.

Our current president is unwilling in this regard. 

President Trump is the converse of morality and virtue and continually seems to move us backward with his version of revisionist history, distorting, altering and even falsifying historical evidence to fit his agenda. He is forever suppressing or attempting to suppress the civil liberties of those who oppose him. He has actively supported and empowered local governments to ban and remove books from public institutions. He has removed or altered exhibits, plaques and monuments from our National Parks, exhibits he terms “inappropriately disparaging to Americans past or living.” These exhibits include the nation’s first executive mansion, which detailed the nine people enslaved by George Washington; the Bunker Hill Monument, to eliminate language he deemed contrary to founding principles; and locations highlighting Japanese American internment and Native American conflicts. He has sent federal troops into our cities in direct defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act. He has allowed his defense secretary, who some call a Christian White Nationalist, to deny high-ranking promotions to senior Army and Navy officers, the majority being women and minorities, and to intervene in a Navy one-star admiral promotion list, removing nine highly vetted officers. The final list of 22 nominees contained zero women and only two non-white officers. Finally, his immigration policies appear to be an obvious attempt to rid the country of Black and Brown people. This is just a small sample of Trump’s penchant for authoritarianism and what this author feels is a deep hatred and disdain for anyone other than his own race. Donald Trump is the ideological antithesis to the phrase “all men are created equal.”

With that said, I was having a conversation with my good friend Nick Allison, an Army combat veteran and fellow Chaos Section contributor, the other day and mentioned my feelings of anger and visceral disgust for our current administration, so much so that I could not find a reason to celebrate our 250 years of independence, particularly as a veteran. I’ll end with Nick’s response:

“You know what? I think we can always find a reason to celebrate, regardless of the current occupant in the Oval Office, because there are always things and ideas and people worth celebrating. This is still a great country with great people and a wonderfully unique experiment in constitutional representative freedom. It gets messy and sometimes runs off the rails, but that’s kind of the whole point of the experiment: we’re a nation of people governing ourselves, which means it’s on us to correct course when things go sideways. Most of human history has been kings, monarchs and strongmen who never had to answer to anybody. Making it 250 years as a self-correcting experiment, messy and beautiful and stupid and wonderful all at once, is reason enough to celebrate. Don’t let one egotistical, narcissistic old man who will be out of office in a couple years, dead within ten, take that away from you.”

Mike Cone is a Marine Corps infantry veteran who served as a mortarman and forward observer in Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines. “Hollow Mockery” is his first piece for The Chaos Section. He lives on Long Island with his wife Cynthia.

With the #PosseComitatusAct, signed into law by Pres.#RutherfordBHayes on Jun 18, 1878, the military is limited in its ability to enforce civilian law. Since then, the act has been tested and even suspended, but still stands as a reminder of the role of the military in our lives. #photography #americana #wa #california #californication #canon80d #colorphotography #blackandwhitephotography #travel #photos #trivia

With the #PosseComitatusAct, signed into law by Pres.#RutherfordBHayes on Jun 18, 1878, the military is limited in its ability to enforce civilian law. Since then, the act has been tested and even suspended, but still stands as a reminder of the role of the military in our lives. #photography #americana #wa #california #californication #canon80d #colorphotography #blackandwhitephotography #travel #photos #trivia

In late Dec, #SCOTUS issued a temporary order blocking #Trump from carrying out the #Chicago deployment because, it said, the president’s ability to federalize the #NationalGuard likely applies only in “exceptional” circumstances. The ruling has called into question any broader plans by the admin to use #federal #troops domestically to respond to #civil unrest.

The deployments have cost >$496 million, the Congressional Budget Office reported in Jan.

#law #states #governors #PosseComitatusAct

In late Dec, #SCOTUS issued a temporary order blocking #Trump from carrying out the #Chicago deployment because, it said, the president’s ability to federalize the #NationalGuard likely applies only in “exceptional” circumstances. The ruling has called into question any broader plans by the admin to use #federal #troops domestically to respond to #civil unrest.

The deployments have cost >$496 million, the Congressional Budget Office reported in Jan.

#law #states #governors #PosseComitatusAct

More than 2,500 #NationalGuard members remain in #WashingtonDC, in response to Trump’s ordered deployment, but under a nonfederal status. Their mission — part crackdown on “crime” & part sanitation duty — is expected to last until the end of the year. Additionally, there is an ongoing Guard presence in #Memphis & #NewOrleans, but those missions, while funded by the #FederalGovernment under a novel agreement with the #Trump admin, are overseen by each #state’s #governor.

#law #PosseComitatusAct

More than 2,500 #NationalGuard members remain in #WashingtonDC, in response to Trump’s ordered deployment, but under a nonfederal status. Their mission — part crackdown on “crime” & part sanitation duty — is expected to last until the end of the year. Additionally, there is an ongoing Guard presence in #Memphis & #NewOrleans, but those missions, while funded by the #FederalGovernment under a novel agreement with the #Trump admin, are overseen by each #state’s #governor.

#law #PosseComitatusAct

The deployments — including >5,000 troops to #LosAngeles, approximately 500 into #Chicago & 200 to #Portland, #Oregon — were ordered despite the vehement opposition from state & local leaders who labeled the #Trump admin’s actions an unlawful abuse of presidential authority. All of those service members were sent home by the end of January, according to US Northern Command.

#Trump #law #states #governors #NationalGuard #PosseComitatusAct

The deployments — including >5,000 troops to #LosAngeles, approximately 500 into #Chicago & 200 to #Portland, #Oregon — were ordered despite the vehement opposition from state & local leaders who labeled the #Trump admin’s actions an unlawful abuse of presidential authority. All of those service members were sent home by the end of January, according to US Northern Command.

#Trump #law #states #governors #NationalGuard #PosseComitatusAct

It was a remarkable turnabout after #Trump [if he even knows about it] & #Defense Secy #Hegseth had insisted the mobilizations were necessary to combat what they claimed was unchecked violence & to support enforcement of the nation’s #immigration laws.

#law #state #governors #NationalGuard #PosseComitatusAct

It was a remarkable turnabout after #Trump [if he even knows about it] & #Defense Secy #Hegseth had insisted the mobilizations were necessary to combat what they claimed was unchecked violence & to support enforcement of the nation’s #immigration laws.

#law #state #governors #NationalGuard #PosseComitatusAct

The #Trump admin has withdrawn all #federalized #NationalGuard #troops from US cities, after its repeated attempts to surge forces into #Democrat-run #states encountered #judicial roadblocks.

The pullout was quietly finalized late last month, occurring with no public acknowledgment from the #WhiteHouse or the #Pentagon.

#law #PosseComitatusAct

The #Trump admin has withdrawn all #federalized #NationalGuard #troops from US cities, after its repeated attempts to surge forces into #Democrat-run #states encountered #judicial roadblocks.

The pullout was quietly finalized late last month, occurring with no public acknowledgment from the #WhiteHouse or the #Pentagon.

#law #PosseComitatusAct

#NationalGuard troops were quietly withdrawn from some #US #cities

The deployments encountered repeated legal setbacks [because they were illegal] that stymied #Trump’s “show of force” [#coup attempts] in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #Portland, Oregon.

#law #state #governors #PosseComitatusAct
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/11/national-guard-los-angeles-chicago-portland/

#NationalGuard troops were quietly withdrawn from some #US #cities

The deployments encountered repeated legal setbacks [because they were illegal] that stymied #Trump’s “show of force” [#coup attempts] in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #Portland, Oregon.

#law #state #governors #PosseComitatusAct
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/11/national-guard-los-angeles-chicago-portland/

#ICYMI #history

The #PosseComitatusAct is what made Jim Crow possible.

#ICYMI #history

The #PosseComitatusAct is what made Jim Crow possible.

The #Army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case “violence” in #Minnesota escalates, officials said, characterizing the move as “prudent planning.” It is not clear whether any of them will be sent to the state, the officials said, speaking like some others on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive #military planning.

#Trump #law #Congress #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #AbuseOfPower #autocracy

The #Army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case “violence” in #Minnesota escalates, officials said, characterizing the move as “prudent planning.” It is not clear whether any of them will be sent to the state, the officials said, speaking like some others on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive #military planning.

#Trump #law #Congress #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #AbuseOfPower #autocracy

The #Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to #Minnesota, #defense officials told WaPo late Saturday, after #Trump threatened to invoke the #InsurrectionAct in response to “unrest” [dissent] there.

The soldiers are assigned to 2 #infantry #battalions with the #Army’s #11thAirborne Division, which is based in Alaska & specializes in #ColdWeather operations.

#NationalSecurity #law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #AbuseOfPower

The #Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to #Minnesota, #defense officials told WaPo late Saturday, after #Trump threatened to invoke the #InsurrectionAct in response to “unrest” [dissent] there.

The soldiers are assigned to 2 #infantry #battalions with the #Army’s #11thAirborne Division, which is based in Alaska & specializes in #ColdWeather operations.

#NationalSecurity #law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #AbuseOfPower

This is actually what #CivilWar looks like. #Trump is pitting #USsoldiers against #US soldiers on #domestic soil.

#Pentagon readies 1,500 #soldiers to possibly deploy to #Minnesota

Troops with the #Army’s #11thAirborne Division in Alaska are preparing after Trump’s #InsurrectionAct threat, according to defense officials.

#NationalSecurity #law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #AbuseOfPower #autocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/18/trump-minnesota-insurrection-act/

This is actually what #CivilWar looks like. #Trump is pitting #USsoldiers against #US soldiers on #domestic soil.

#Pentagon readies 1,500 #soldiers to possibly deploy to #Minnesota

Troops with the #Army’s #11thAirborne Division in Alaska are preparing after Trump’s #InsurrectionAct threat, according to defense officials.

#NationalSecurity #law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #AbuseOfPower #autocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/18/trump-minnesota-insurrection-act/

#Trump officials extend #NationalGuard mission in #DC through 2026

The domestic #military mission, which is the subject of an ongoing #court challenge, was due to expire at the end of February.

#law #HomeRule #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #StateSponsoredTerrorism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/16/trump-national-guard-dc/

#Trump officials extend #NationalGuard mission in #DC through 2026

The domestic #military mission, which is the subject of an ongoing #court challenge, was due to expire at the end of February.

#law #HomeRule #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #StateSponsoredTerrorism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/16/trump-national-guard-dc/

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115901426247196926

Although the Insurrection Act appears to confer wide-ranging authority,
the Department of Justice has long taken the position that the law is
“limited . . . by the Constitution and by tradition.”

In a 1964 memorandum,
the deputy attorney General wrote that the law may be invoked in three circumstances:

when a state requests help in putting down an insurrection,

when deployment is needed to enforce a federal court order,

or when “state and local law enforcement have completely broken down.”

Moreover, even on its face,
the Insurrection Act only permits the use of troops to enforce either federal laws or a narrow category of state laws
(essentially, civil rights protections).

Troops could not be used, for instance, to combat street crime, as that type of criminal activity is governed by state and local laws.

Most important,
no statute can override the Constitution.

Accordingly, troops deployed under the Insurrection Act may not violate individuals’ constitutional rights.

They may not, for example,
search a person’s home without a warrant.

And while the Insurrection Act is an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act,
it is not an exception to other federal laws that might apply to their conduct

(for instance, the law criminalizing the presence of federal troops at polling places).

#InsurrectionAct #rebellion #violence #PosseComitatusAct #StaffordAct

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115901426247196926

Although the Insurrection Act appears to confer wide-ranging authority,
the Department of Justice has long taken the position that the law is
“limited . . . by the Constitution and by tradition.”

In a 1964 memorandum,
the deputy attorney General wrote that the law may be invoked in three circumstances:

when a state requests help in putting down an insurrection,

when deployment is needed to enforce a federal court order,

or when “state and local law enforcement have completely broken down.”

Moreover, even on its face,
the Insurrection Act only permits the use of troops to enforce either federal laws or a narrow category of state laws
(essentially, civil rights protections).

Troops could not be used, for instance, to combat street crime, as that type of criminal activity is governed by state and local laws.

Most important,
no statute can override the Constitution.

Accordingly, troops deployed under the Insurrection Act may not violate individuals’ constitutional rights.

They may not, for example,
search a person’s home without a warrant.

And while the Insurrection Act is an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act,
it is not an exception to other federal laws that might apply to their conduct

(for instance, the law criminalizing the presence of federal troops at polling places).

#InsurrectionAct #rebellion #violence #PosseComitatusAct #StaffordAct

Trump’s push to deploy #troops in #Democrat cities has been met with legal challenges at nearly every turn.

#SCOTUS in December refused to allow the #Trump admin to deploy #NationalGuard troops in the #Chicago area as part of its crackdown on “#immigration”. The order was not a final ruling but was a significant & rare setback by the high court for trump’s efforts.

In #DC, district AG Brian Schwalb sued to halt the deployments of >2k guardsmen.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #military

Trump’s push to deploy #troops in #Democrat cities has been met with legal challenges at nearly every turn.

#SCOTUS in December refused to allow the #Trump admin to deploy #NationalGuard troops in the #Chicago area as part of its crackdown on “#immigration”. The order was not a final ruling but was a significant & rare setback by the high court for trump’s efforts.

In #DC, district AG Brian Schwalb sued to halt the deployments of >2k guardsmen.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #military

#NationalGuard troops had already left #LosAngeles after #Trump deployed them earlier this year as part of a broader crackdown on “crime” & “#immigration” [nonwhites]. They had been sent to #Chicago & #Portland but were never on the streets [though they were on “federal property”] as legal challenges played out.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #military #Constitution #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

#NationalGuard troops had already left #LosAngeles after #Trump deployed them earlier this year as part of a broader crackdown on “crime” & “#immigration” [nonwhites]. They had been sent to #Chicago & #Portland but were never on the streets [though they were on “federal property”] as legal challenges played out.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #military #Constitution #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

#Trump said he’s dropping—for now—his push to deploy #NationalGuard troops in #Chicago, #LosAngeles & #Portland, OR, a move that comes after several legal roadblocks enjoined his effort.

Trump said in a social media post Wednesday that he’s removing the Guard troops for now. “We will come back, perhaps in a much different & stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!” he wrote.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #military

#Trump said he’s dropping—for now—his push to deploy #NationalGuard troops in #Chicago, #LosAngeles & #Portland, OR, a move that comes after several legal roadblocks enjoined his effort.

Trump said in a social media post Wednesday that he’s removing the Guard troops for now. “We will come back, perhaps in a much different & stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!” he wrote.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #military

“At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of #authority that would allow the #military to execute the laws in #Illinois,” the court said in its unsigned order.

And of course, Conservative Justices Samuel #Alito, #ClarenceThomas & Neil #Gorsuch dissented.

#Trump #law #immigration #military #NationalGuard #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #Constitution #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

“At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of #authority that would allow the #military to execute the laws in #Illinois,” the court said in its unsigned order.

And of course, Conservative Justices Samuel #Alito, #ClarenceThomas & Neil #Gorsuch dissented.

#Trump #law #immigration #military #NationalGuard #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #Constitution #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

The justices declined the #Trump administration’s emergency request to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judge April Perry that had blocked the deployment of troops. An appeals court also had refused to step in. #SCOTUS took more than two months to act.

The high court order is not a final ruling but it could affect other lawsuits challenging Trump’s attempts to deploy the #military in other #Democratic-led #US #cities.

#law #immigration #AbuseOfPower #NationalGuard #PosseComitatusAct #ICE

The justices declined the #Trump administration’s emergency request to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judge April Perry that had blocked the deployment of troops. An appeals court also had refused to step in. #SCOTUS took more than two months to act.

The high court order is not a final ruling but it could affect other lawsuits challenging Trump’s attempts to deploy the #military in other #Democratic-led #US #cities.

#law #immigration #AbuseOfPower #NationalGuard #PosseComitatusAct #ICE

Holy shit & hell yeah

#SCOTUS on Tuesday barred #Trump from deploying the #NationalGuard to #Chicago to “protect” #ICE agents, handing the White House a rare loss at the court as Trump has sought to send #military troops to multiple US #cities.

#law #immigration #PosseComitatusAct #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #despotism #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-national-guard-97192a48f01dd4954f1ba505628b5f21?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-23-Breaking+News

Holy shit & hell yeah

#SCOTUS on Tuesday barred #Trump from deploying the #NationalGuard to #Chicago to “protect” #ICE agents, handing the White House a rare loss at the court as Trump has sought to send #military troops to multiple US #cities.

#law #immigration #PosseComitatusAct #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #despotism #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-national-guard-97192a48f01dd4954f1ba505628b5f21?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-23-Breaking+News

Maurer added that “if the guidance does not explicitly advise servicemembers that they have a duty to disobey unlawful orders, the guidance is not a legitimate statement of professional military ethics & the law.”

#law #Trump #Hegseth #military #criminal #murder #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #policing #cities #PosseComitatusAct

Maurer added that “if the guidance does not explicitly advise servicemembers that they have a duty to disobey unlawful orders, the guidance is not a legitimate statement of professional military ethics & the law.”

#law #Trump #Hegseth #military #criminal #murder #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #policing #cities #PosseComitatusAct

…Dan Maurer, a retired #Army lieutenant colonel & former #JAG lawyer, said that the guidance, as described by CNN, appears to “misunderstand what a servicemember is supposed to do in the face of an unlawful order: disobey it if confident that the order is unlawful & attempt to persuade the order-giver to stop or modify it have failed, & report it through the chain of command.”

#law #Trump #Hegseth #military #criminal #murder #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #policing #cities #PosseComitatusAct