#insurrection-act

#insurrection-act

The siege of Minneapolis represents a fitting, if foreboding, capstone to the first year of President Donald Trump's second term. Since returning to office one year ago, Trump has pursued no goal more passionately or persistently than breaking the ability of blue jurisdictions and their leaders to resist him. In the process, he is straining the nation's fundamental cohesion in ways that may escalate beyond his control.

In any liberal morality play, Democrats always get to be the shivering, oppressed black people, while Republicans have to play the part of Bull Connor, Birmingham, AL's racist commissioner of public safety. Except the facts are exactly the opposite. I'm sure you're bored of hearing this, but Connor was a Democrat, as were all the politicians promising "massive resistance" to racial integration. Republicans were the ones forcing Democrats to abide by federal law, along with a few John Fetterman- style Democrats.

"Weaponizing the justice system and threatening political opponents is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic," Walz said in a statement.

The regime has lashed out in turn, increasingly directing its violence and intimidation toward U.S. citizens attempting to stand up for their loved ones and neighbors, whether that's detaining people and allegedly offering to pay them for the names of immigrants or protest organizers, or simply applying brunt, physical violence, as in the case of 21-year-old California resident and citizen Kaden Rummler, who was permanently blinded by an immigration agent this week when he was shot in the face by a "less than lethal" munition.

If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT.

President Donald Trump took to social media on Thursday threatening to crack down on protests in Minnesota, as federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers face off with protestors in the streets on Minneapolis following the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent. The threat follows renewed clashes there overnight after a federal agent shot a local man in the leg after allegedly resisting arrest during a "targeted traffic stop," according to CNN.

The provisions of U.S. code that make up the Insurrection Act give the president the authority to deploy troops on American soil. One section requires state consent. The others do not. Those other sections allow him to deploy troops to enforce laws, suppress rebellion or respond to "domestic violence" that deprives people of their constitutional rights.

At the center of the sprawling legal battle over President Trump's domestic military deployments is a single word: rebellion. To justify sending the National Guard to Los Angeles and other cities over the outcry of local leaders, the Trump administration has cited an obscure and little-used law empowering presidents to federalize soldiers to "suppress" a rebellion, or the threat of one. But the statute does not define the word on which it turns. That's where Bryan A. Garner comes in.

Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy more troops into Democrat-led cities. We have an insurrection act for a reason. If I had to enact it I would do that, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, adding, if people were being killed and courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure I would do that.