There’s an emerging blue-state nightmare: Inspired by President Donald Trump’s call to round up immigrants who are in the country illegally, red-state governors might start sending their National Guard troops into blue states without those leaders’ permission.
It’s a scenario that was so concerning to Washington state Rep. Sharlett Mena that she introduced legislation that would make uninvited deployments of out-of-state troops illegal. Her bill cleared a committee last week and has the backing of Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson, who pushed for the proposal in his inaugural address last month.
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But, as she noted to her colleagues last week, if Trump were to federalize National Guard units, there’s nothing the state could do to prevent it; a presidential order preempts state authority.
Hey member in Iraq War II when we were losing a bunch of soldiers and instead of throwing more in or thinking about a draft they just sent over the National Guard?
the National Guard. Who . . .were supposed to be guarding the nation?
Anyway. Just in case some of you were not alive to remember that.
Authoritarian regimes receive the power we freely give right? “There’s nothing we can do” is probably a reasonable alarmist statement if trying to get a bill passed, but I assume the “we” in this case is just legislatures not the general public?
Hey member in Iraq War II when we were losing a bunch of soldiers and instead of throwing more in or thinking about a draft they just sent over the National Guard?
the National Guard. Who . . .were supposed to be guarding the nation?
Anyway. Just in case some of you were not alive to remember that.
National guard was used a lot in ww2 and many other wars including Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s not a new thing
In WWII? Really - where were they deployed?
More or less everywhere, really.
Here’s more
Oh, well, the day after Pearl Harbor makes perfect sense.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Army_National_Guard#%3A~%3Atext=Because+National+Guard+units+had%2Cthe+Japanese+attack+on+Pearl
I know Washington recently passed an assault weapons ban but we are running into “this is what the second amendment is actually for” territory.
Authoritarian regimes receive the power we freely give right? “There’s nothing we can do” is probably a reasonable alarmist statement if trying to get a bill passed, but I assume the “we” in this case is just legislatures not the general public?