Maybe I’m just lucky, but I have no idea how an ICE agent looks themselves in the face. Like is money everything? I don’t even want to blame the ICE agents, I think we made such a horrendous economic system that people will do any job to pay the rent. Prostitutes do more honest work.
So, yeah, the “national guard” either figure out morality on the spot, or not.
Anyone that works for Palantir, fuck you. They are building a database.
You're essentially saying you expect criminals to clear a higher bar than cops.
He also said that "Federal officials have their mission...they have every right to do that"
So, it looks like the officials in charge don't share your extraordinary delusions.
If you think there's an issue with this the correct (both moral and practical) thing to do would be to campaign for secession.
The 'entire point' of the thing of the government is to protect the rights of individuals in our borders, and all else falls downstream from that.
As for secession, I agree the states should have that right, however the civil war and subsequent litigation established that states have no right to secession.
However, after that happens there will be judgement. And the judgement is finding that quite often these renditions without process were not so justified. If you are going to act without process, you damn well better be right, and if you are not you should be judged as if you acted violently lawlessly.
Again if you think there's a moral problem you should campaign for secession (the rest of the country absolutely does not share your concern.)
There is no invasion by any meaningful definition of the term.
What on earth do you think an “invasion” is?
Yeah and we're talking about foreign and domestic enemies here. People burning down cars, destroying property and attacking the police, all while waving Mexican and Palestinian flags are very much foreign enemies, or at least foreign-supporting enemies.
Didn't the people that founded this country do a bunch of property destruction in the lead-up to the creation of this country?
Also they did that because they didn't have representation.
Is this the case here?
Only "to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions" [1]. Otherwise, the National Guard is banned from domestic law enforcment at the command of the President [2].
[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/insu...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_%28United_State...
§253. Interference with State and Federal law
The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—
(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or
(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title10/sub...
Oh, totally. I’d even argue that interpretation is correct. How we forgot to repeal this law while in power is beyond me, but I guess this is a good stress test.
It's pretty clear that the laws are full of "extraordinary" powers for use in "extraordinary" situations. Jon Stewart has made that point that because of this, most of what Trump has been doing is perfectly legal.
When people talk about Congress ceding its power to the executive, this is what they're describing. It's a modern phenomenon, a product of lazy legislating.
We need a generation of lawmakers to rewrite decades of statute to be clear about what the federal government has the power to do, and then have the discipline to end it there. No extraordinary powers. The Constitution already extraordinarily empowers the President in military emergencies. Other emergencies can be dealt by an emergency session of the Congress. (There is no reason the President should have emergency tariff powers, for instance.)
https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeade...
[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/poss...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_(United_States)
[3] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1385
[4] https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-national-guard-in-l...
... It only prohibits this veing done without specific statutory authority. In addition to provisions of the Insurrection Act, specific statutory authority for Presidential use of the National Guard specifically for, among other purpose, executing the laws of the United States is found in 10 USC § 12406 regarding federalizing the Guard [0], which is the basis cited for the recent mobilization. So, the argument that it is violating Posse Comitatus requires arguing as well that the invocation of § 12406 is invalid. There is an argument for that, as § 12406 explicitly requires orders for its purposes shall be issued through the Governors of the states involved, so the argument is that, by bypassing the Governor, Trump is acting outside of the cited statutory authority of § 12406, and therefore also violating Posse Comitatus.
The problem with that technical argument is that it probably achieves nothing in practice even if it works, as the conditions for invoking the Insurrection Act encompass those for § 12406, allow federalizing any of the universal militia (including the Guard) and not just the Guard, and do not require orders through the Governor of the State [1], so if there were found to a legal issue, a new order with the same effect founded in 10 USC § 253 instead of 10 USC § 12406 could immediately be issued.
[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/12406
[1] compare 10 USC §§ 252-253 [2][3] to § 12406 [0]
srean•8mo ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Almost the same time of the year.