Which in addition to being morally indefensible is also illegal under this law. Half the country is applauding it.
He is also calling for the arrest of Governor Newsom.
(It should be noted that none of this is, of course, remotely as concerning as the tax deductable status of SWE salaries.)
Feel free to talk about Bay Area zoning issues and drug policies, or Brexit and the EU, or copyright law and AI, or Boeing and the FAA, or Edward Snowden and the NSA, BUT NO POLITICS!
This is NOT a "strict 'no politics' rule" .
Meanwhile topics that keep getting flagged in the last few months are new things like cuts to science budgets and institutions.
So this act is not relevant to today's news
If Newsom had deployed them instead of Trump, then your statement would be accurate.
I would imagine this is being done as a signal to the state of California not to incite insurrection or the Insurrection Act could be invoked.
I’m not making a judgment about the morality or correctness of the current federalization of the national guard, but we need to make sure we are not spreading misinformation at such a time and sticking to facts.
Edit:
I did just find this, so it seems they are being integrated somehow. So then yes, not clear how this would be legal:
https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/421...
California isn’t “inciting” anything - this is a few people in a couple of parts of the city and so far it seems like a protest with some violence on the order of a bad Raiders game, nothing remotely like the 1992 riots much less an actual insurrection.
Still relevant to today's news
> However, when Guard personnel are called into federal service, or “federalized,” they become part of the federal armed forces, which means they are bound by the Posse Comitatus Act until they are returned to state control.
garbagecoder•5h ago
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dogline•4h ago
readthenotes1•2h ago
"While the Posse Comitatus Act refers only to the Army and Air Force, a different statute extends the same rule to the Navy and Marine Corps. The Coast Guard, though part of the federal armed forces, has express statutory authority to perform law enforcement and is not bound by the Posse Comitatus Act."
valleyer•1h ago
QuantumGood•2h ago
It includes the 2021 update which expanded the PCA’s coverage to include the Navy, Marine Corps, and Space Force, in addition to the Army and Air Force, and the Modernization of Military Guidance in 2019 when The Department of Defense updated its internal guidance on the PCA, reflecting evolving interpretations and regulatory practices.
Not yet enacted into law: Strengthening the Posse Comitatus Act of 2020 (H.R. 7297) was introduced in the House in June 2020 to further expand the PCA’s applicability to all branches of the Armed Forces and prohibit the use of evidence obtained in violation of the Act.