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2 weeks agoTrump Might Get to Send the National Guard Anywhere He Wants
The law Trump has cited to activate National Guard troops is not the Insurrection Act - though he has openly contemplated it - but rather an emergency statute titled Section 12406. (Not every statute gets a memorably ominous moniker.) That law permits the president to deploy the Guard, even over the objection of a state governor, in cases of rebellion or foreign invasion, or when "the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States."
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