- Trump sent Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles
- California challenges legality of use of Guard troops
Aug 11 (Reuters) - A landmark trial kicks off on Monday over the use by Donald Trump’s administration of National Guard forces to support its deportation efforts and quell protests in Los Angeles, in a legal challenge to the U.S. president’s break from long-standing norms against deploying troops on American streets.
The three-day non-jury trial before San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer will determine if the government violated a 19th century law that bars the military from civil law enforcement when Trump deployed the troops in June, as the state of California claims in its legal challenge.
Let me make this short and sweet, yes, yes they did? Do we really need a trial of any kind for this? We all know the answer…
Yes. But the process needs to be followed. Sure we could just skip it, but is that really the precedent we want to set?
No, I don’t think it does. Following our legal process has done fuck all so far to stop these authoritarian fuckwits. There’s really only one thing other than violence that will solve this, and thats a full on national work stoppage, for however long it takes. A couple of weeks without being able to go to the grocery store, or Target, or whoever else would make people absolute lose their mind. Happened during covid already, and that was actually for a good reason.
The precedent is to go fast and break shit at this point.
Even if they wanted to, how would California’s government “skip it?” Send in the California State Guard against the US military?
The precedent for an occupying force inside an american city is revolution, please shut the fuck up
“The jews in germany really should have done more within the courts to oppose the enabling act, but nothing more because of the precedent it would set”
Your cowardice will condemn millions
Going through the process keeps our democracy and institutions in tact and shows dipshit that we still care about our constitution. Revolution throws all that out the window.
Maybe, just maybe, the institutions failed and created this circumstance by design.
Or, assholes found and exploited weaknesses in the system, and those tasked with checking them are on the take. I wouldn’t say totally failed, but failing absolutely.
The bright spot? Breyer has a history of ruling for therl states over the feds.