Trump Threatens to Invoke the Insurrection Act -- Which Could Place Us Under Hegseth Military Martial Law
He's always been headed here because what he wants is a military dictatorship on U.S. Soil -- put another way TOTAL CONTROL OF EVERYBODY.
Here’s the news bulletin from The Guardian:
In a post on Truth Social today, Trump said he would institute the centuries-old, seldom used law – that allows the president to use the military domestically to suppress an invasion or rebellion – if “the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job”.
On Wednesday, a federal officer shot a man in the leg during an enforcement operation in north Minneapolis, sparking further protests in the city, just a week after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good.
In the very first weeks of this power-mad president’s administration, very wise analysts — historians, political pundits, law school professors, specialists in fascism —warned that Trump would try to manufacture a crisis that would allow him to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 in order to effectively invoke martial law, turning the United States into a military dictatorship. He would, then, simply cancel elections and declare himself king or emperor of whatever gilded fantasy his mind dreams up this week.
The Bulwark, this morning, put it bluntly:
ICE STARTED THE FIRE
and their brilliant article is a must-read. Find it here:
Meanwhile, this mid-morning salvo from Forbes lays out the spectacular authority the Act gives Trump and how courts may, with no little effort, challenge it:
The Supreme Court has given the president wide latitude to deploy federal troops under the Insurrection Act, ruling in the 1827 case Martin v. Mott that the decision on deploying troops to suppress insurrections “belongs exclusively to the President.” Justices have since said there are instances where courts can second guess the president’s actions, Nunn noted for the Brennan Center, such as if the president deploys troops in bad faith or deploys troops in a way that’s clearly unlawful. “What are the allowable limits of military discretion, and whether or not they have been overstepped in a particular case, are judicial questions,” the Supreme Court wrote in a 1932 ruling, arguing “there is a permitted range of honest judgment as to the measures to be taken in meeting force with force.” The Supreme Court also said in 1932 that courts can consider what the military does once it’s deployed. That means even if Trump was lawfully able to send the military into Minnesota or any Democratic-led city, if those troops did something that violated the law, the courts could still step in. Trump officials have been concerned in the past that invoking the Insurrection Act could lead to the invocation being struck down at the Supreme Court, NBC reports, due to not being sufficiently justified, and had been “focused on charting a legal pathway” for using the law that could withstand a court challenge.
Now is the time to inundate Congress
If Trump is restrained at all on this—which the just-impeached Kristi Noem is practically foaming at the mouth to see done—it will be by Congress, pushed by us. Call them now. Even if the call doesn’t go through, your message IS counted.
The Minneapolis Incident Tracker Is Here
https://thebastionusa.com/twin-cities-ice-and-cbp-abuse-and-misconduct-tracker
Stay safe, Minneapolis, and to the degree you can, do as Tim Walz says: FILM EVERYTHING.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
-Frederick Douglass, 1857
Insurrection Act:
tRump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act as a response to citizens of Minnesota exercising their Constitutionally guaranteed first amendment rights. Should he follow thru with the threat, to me it is a call for a nationwide general strike. The only Insurrection is from the tRump regime. Shut it down!