Opinion: Trump promised to be a dictator on Day 1: Here’s why the Insurrection Act blocks him

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-20 10:38:13 | Updated at 2024-11-23 17:10:04 3 days ago

Opinion: Trump promised to be a dictator on Day 1: Here’s why the Insurrection Act blocks him

Posted on 11/20/2024 2:21:22 AM PST by airdalechief

Could President-elect Donald Trump use the military within the U.S. to suppress protests on college campuses, patrol the southern border, and conduct mass deportations? By invoking the Insurrection Act — a little-known law that grants the president sweeping authority to deploy the military on American soil — he plans to do just that.

In 2020, Trump wanted to deploy military forces to quash the Black Lives Matter protests but was convinced not to by advisers such as Attorney General William Barr and Gen. Mark Milley. In his second term, with Trump pledging to purge independent voices and install loyalists across government, there may be no one left to say no.

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KEYWORDS: military; trump; vanity

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The Insurrection Act contains three triggers for military deployment. The first is relatively uncontroversial because it requires a state to explicitly request military assistance to suppress an insurrection. But the other two triggers appear to grant the president virtually unchecked power to deploy troops without state consent — or even against state wishes.

The language in these other two sections of the law is breathtakingly broad. One section seems to allow the president to deploy troops whenever “unlawful obstructions” make it “impractical” to enforce federal law. The other goes further still, purporting to authorize the use of military force to suppress any “domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” that “opposes or obstructs” federal law enforcement.

(A good read article)

1 posted on 11/20/2024 2:21:22 AM PST by airdalechief

To: airdalechief

Did I mess this up before my first cup of coffee. I will repost it.

2 posted on 11/20/2024 2:24:44 AM PST by airdalechief

To: airdalechief

Yes. Yes you did.

You posted this with no link leaving us to believe you wrote this.

3 posted on 11/20/2024 2:34:31 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)

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