U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has suggested Donald Trump could attempt to deploy troops to U.S. cities under the Insurrection Act.
The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to call on reserve or active-duty military to suppress rebellion or domestic violence or enforce the law in states.
Kavanaugh’s remarks came in a separate opinion after the court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown.
The high court declined the administration’s emergency request to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judge April Perry that had blocked the deployment of troops. Three justices—Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch—publicly dissented.
He tries to pull that and I have a feeling he’ll get a real insurrection or 50 to deal with. Surely that would be the line too far, right guys???
Thing is, none of the troops want to go out and be jack booted storm troopers for fat old dementia Donald.
Do you mean aside from all of the troops who have already gone out to be Jack booted storm troopers for fat old dementia Don?
I’m sure some do…
Some, but nowhere near as many as voted for him. There’s a gigantic canyon between “willing to vote and argue for him” and “willing to fight and die for him.” Especially after how much of a letdown his 2nd term has been for a lot of people.
I mean, they voted to cut health care from people, increase their own health care premiums, raise taxes on all foreign goods, destroy the exports of goods like soybeans, cut funding from schools/teachers, and make sure taxes stay low for the billionaires.
What did they want in return? Nothing. They didn’t ask for better health care even though they are going to pay more, they didn’t demand lower prices on goods that would be local, and no promises were made to subsidize local businesses to ensure they could start manufacturing such products to equalize the prices anytime in the next umpteen years.
I don’t get it, they voted to pay more, to give it to billionaires faster, with 0 plan on how the middle class will ever grow back.
Small businesses will all die out, and they’ll give it all to oligarchs… for nothing in return
They get permission to hate the people they want to hate. See? They think it is a fair deal.
Is that what they call smashing people’s doors down and kicking the shit out of unarmed civilians?
I bet this is exactly the kind of thing German citizens were saying to each other in the 30s.
Assume 50%, the military subset of the electorate probably matches the distribution of the public electorate.
probably
The military is actually considerable more diverse and lower compensated than the general US population. But also considerably more male, so it’s really anyone’s guess, but they all have families and friends who are Americans, so it’s unlikely they are going to be categorically willing to fight a war against their own country.
I really really hope so.
One can only hope…