Already looking ahead to the turmoil his re-election could cause, Donald Trump and his allies are reportedly circling an idea to invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, deploying the military to act as domestic law enforcement.
According to a Washington Post report on Sunday, the drafting of such plans has largely been “unofficially outsourced” thus far to a coalition of right-wing think tanks working under the title “Project 2025.” It was identified as an immediate priority for the hypothetical resurrected Trump administration, internal communications obtained by the newspaper showed.
In response to questions from the Post, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung provided a statement: “President Trump is focused on crushing his opponents in the primary election and then going on to beat Crooked Joe Biden,” he said. “President Trump has always stood for law and order, and protecting the Constitution.”
They would have to do something about Posse Comitatus first.
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/posse-comitatus-revisited-use-military-civil-law-enforcement
“The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which removed the military from regular civil law enforcement, was enacted in response to the abuses resulting from the extensive use of the army in civil law enforcement during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. The Act allows legislated exceptions.”
That “something” might just turn out to be as simple as “ignore it”.
I mean, I guess, they could try… but then they would be delivering unlawful orders to the military. That likely won’t go the way they think it will go.
The military has been deployed against the civilian populace before, re the Ohio State massacre. This would be on a whole other level, but there is precedent.
Because, as we’ve seen, Trump would totes follow the Rule of Law…then again, who needs silly things like Laws when you become the self-declared Lord Emperor after “fixing” America.
“abuses… during the Civil War and the Reconstruction”, as if there wasn’t a bunch of states that not only rebelled, but refused to enforce Federal law after the civil war.
Why do you think Tuberville is deliberately crippling the officer corps?