#insurrection act

[liberalsarecool]

Trump depends on disinformation. His base is so gullible for white leadership that they will believe whatever word salad bullshit that dribbles out of this traitor's mouth.

[spiderlegsmusic]

With Harris as president, if you don’t like the US supporting Israel’s war with Hamas, you can protest. The cops in Chicago may be impatient, but they aren’t shooting.

With Trump as president , if you protest you will be shot. Trump wanted to shoot the BLM Protesters but was told by someone with a rational mind and moral ethic that he couldn’t. In his next term, there won’t be anyone to tell him not to shoot protesters. He’ll enact the Insurrectionist act and mobilize the military on any protests on day 1 and declare martial law, ordering troops to shoot protesters

[intelligentchristianlady]

The original articles are behind a paywall. This is a good summary.

tl;dr: "The stakes in the 2024 race couldn’t be much more obvious."

Update: (x). It's even worse than that.

[gwydionmisha]

12/6/23: Colorado Supreme Court appeal. I know it looks like a rerun, but it's not.

[nodynasty4us]

From the January 24, 2024 article:

A top Democratic senator is renewing his effort to rein in Donald Trump’s — or any other future president’s — authority to deploy the military inside the U.S., following recent threats from the former commander in chief to use troops to tamp down violence in cities if reelected.

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Blumenthal said he is drafting a new version of his legislation that would amend the law to more clearly define what an insurrection is and the circumstances under which the president can use force.... It would also grant local officials standing in the courts to have the emergency lifted at some point after the act is invoked.

[archaalen]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-military-insurrection-act-2024-election-03858b6291e4721991b5a18c2dfb3c36

Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. A legacy law gives him few guardrails

[filosofablogger]

A Glimpse Into What Might Have Been

The indictment that was handed down earlier this week, and on which Trump was arraigned yesterday, paints a painfully clear picture of what might well have happened if things had gone just a little bit differently.  Jamelle Bouie gives us a chilling view in his OpEd for the New York Times today … The Most Frightening Part of the Trump Indictment By Jamelle Bouie 04 August 2023 Buried in the…

[politicalantibody]

The Insurrection Act is a time bomb waiting for a malicious President to set it off. What exactly was the intent of the 1956 update?

[liberalsarecool]

1. 'Have' not 'had'.

2. Illegally being targeted? What kind of letter did you get, Donnie?

Context:

[justinspoliticalcorner]

David Badash at NCRM:

President Donald Trump’s actions on immigration and border security have raised concerns among Americans, including among immigrants’ rights advocates and military experts. Within his first few days in office, the President reportedly directed that anyone crossing the southern border into the U.S. be immediately returned, a move that legal experts claim violates federal and international law. Additionally, Trump has ordered the deployment of “thousands” of military troops to the border—potentially as many as 10,000, according to CNN—on top of the more than 2000 already stationed there. Calling them “political props,” some military experts have criticized this action as unnecessary.

“The Trump administration asked the military earlier this week to be prepared to deploy up to 10,000 active duty troops immediately, setting off a scramble inside the Pentagon, one of the officials and another person familiar with the matter told CNN,” the news network reported Wednesday. “Citing President Trump’s extraordinary move to close the American asylum system, U.S. border agents have been instructed to summarily deport migrants crossing into the country illegally without allowing them to request legal protection, according to internal government documents and agency officials,” CBS News adds. “Just hours after being sworn in, Mr. Trump invoked sweeping presidential authorities to bar the entry of migrants deemed to be participating in an ‘invasion’ of the U.S., as well as those who may pose a public health or national security risk.”

CBS News’ Camilo Montoya-Galvez adds, “President Trump has effectively revived the Covid-era Title 42 policy, suspending U.S. asylum law for unauthorized migrants entering the country. But instead of using public health law, he’s asserting sweeping constitutional and 212(f) powers and arguing there’s an ‘invasion.'” Iraq War veteran, veterans’ activist, and writer Paul Rieckhoff blasted President Trump for sending more troops to the border. “There already 2,500 National Guard and Reserve forces there. Sending active duty troops to the border now is nothing more than Trump overtly using them as political props,” he charged. “Especially since active duty troops are forbidden from doing law enforcement under the Posse Comitatus Act. They can’t arrest or detain anyone at the border unless Trump acts to invoke the Insurrection Act. Which of course may be next.”

Deploying the military to the US/Mexico Border for Donald Trump’s tough on immigrants agenda is wholly inappropriate.

[donald-trump-official]

In case y’all didn’t realize, I don’t actually want to post on this blog any more. I don’t want to think about Donald trump more than I have to.

Buuuuuut he’s getting indicted for the third time within the next week, so like… I feel obligated.

So here’s a recent truth social post from donald trump which includes a Freudian slip alluding to him getting charged under the insurrection act

And here’s the corrected version he put out after deleting the first post

Make with that what you will

[sawbuckplus]

Protesting the results of an election in D.C.

Didn’t the democrats say that was insurrection?

[raurquiz]

#happybirthday #maxgrodenchik #actor #rom #ferengi #startrek #deepspacenine #Insurrection #lowerdecks #therocketeer #rumpelstinkin #risingsun #bartonfink #crossingjordan #sisteract #sixfeetunder #herecomethemonsters #sliders #kingofcalifornia #csi #StrawberryMoments #Unbelievable

[gwydionmisha]

Does 14th Amendment Bar Trump From the Presidency?

[intelligentchristianlady]

Let's Not Forget January 6, 2020

"That day was an American calamity. Lawmakers huddled for safety. Vice President Mike Pence eluded a mob shouting that he should be hanged. Several people died during and after the riot, including one protester by gunshot and four police officers by suicide, and more than 140 officers were injured in a protracted melee that nearly upended what should have been the routine certification of the electoral victory of Mr. Trump’s opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr. But with his return to office, Mr. Trump now has the platform to further rinse and spin the Capitol attack into what he has called “a day of love.” He has vowed to pardon rioters in the first hour of his new administration, while his congressional supporters are pushing for criminal charges against those who investigated his actions on that chaotic day." (NYT, behind a paywall)