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:
- 🔹 Violates DoD Directive 3025.18 – Active-duty military (including Marines) can’t engage in domestic law enforcement unless explicitly authorized.
- 🔹 Violates the First Amendment – Peaceful protest is protected. Military suppression = unconstitutional. (NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886).
- 🔹 Violates the Fourth Amendment – Military detentions/searches are illegal without cause. (Indianapolis v. Edmond, 531 U.S. 32).
- 🔹 Ignores Posse Comitatus limits – PCA (18 U.S.C. § 1385) applies to Army/Air Force, but DoD extends it to all branches.
- 🔹 Unlawful military orders – Troops must disobey unconstitutional orders (UCMJ Art. 92; U.S. v. Calley, 48 C.M.R. 19).
- 🔹 Impeachable abuse of power – Violates Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution.
This isn’t just controversial — it’s flat-out illegal.
Legal or not, the Capitalist state is flexible and do what it wants and what it needs. It isn’t bound by the laws it sets for itself, it can always ignore them if it wants to.
Name one time a capitalist state has done anything illegal.
The IOF invading the Madleen is a nice, topical crime
breaking the law
Since when was that illegal?
Nooooo you’ve got me 🫠
Political power really does grow out of the barrel of a gun…
The military does not train to control crowds. It trains to fight wars. Trump has declared war on our own people.
Wtf? Doesn’t he need to do the Insurrection Act to do that?
The administration is citing the oft-ignored statute of: “The President can do whatever he wants, lol, lmao even.”
There’s this clause about the Senate Pastafarian saying the President doing things is uncouth, but I think that only applies to liberals.
Turns out the president can just do whatever they want but only if they’re not a Democrat trying to do something that helps anybody
This is a clear violation of posse constitution, yes? Not that I expect that to stop them, they’ve been ignoring courts left and right, dunno why the constitution would be any different.
