Despite comments made by Donald Trump just now (“we’ll see”), the US military is set to temporarily deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles while additional National Guard troops arrive in the city, a US official has told Reuters.
The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said a battalion would be sent, but for now, the Insurrection Act is not expected to be invoked.
The official added that the situation was fluid and could change.
The President deploying Marines inside the U.S. without invoking the Insurrection Act, declaring an emergency, or getting local/state approval — especially just to respond to peaceful protests — is unlawful on multiple levels:
This isn’t just controversial — it’s flat-out illegal.
Yep. But who’s stopping them? I swear to god they’re poking the bear to incite revolution. Break all the laws, prove they’re immune, incite full out rebellion, then invoke martial law, then write new laws that they will actually follow (for a time), just to get their new utopia.
So the deployed national guard are obeying unconstitutional orders?
Technically, the president can Federalize the national guard in the case of inability to enforce U.S. laws, which is what he is claiming; that the protests are interfering with ICE doing their fascist jackboot crap aka enforcing U.S. Laws. Whether what ICE is doing is legal is another can of worms. So the whole thing is gray area. But actually deploying Marines appears to be flat out illegal.
Who is going to enforce any of those laws? The same police who are all too happy brutalizing peaceful protestors? I think we’re way past the point of laws making any difference with this administration.
You’re not wrong, but it still needs to be called out. And our troops need to know that it is incumbent upon them to refuse to follow unlawful orders.
They’re the federal government’s troops not yours and they’ll follow their masters orders they are not on the same side as you.