President Trump’s Military Games | The New Yorker
Donald Trump is not too much to predict his own behavior, so it is worth paying attention to in rare cases when the president regrets. Such a moment includes Trump’s decision to call the Federal troops when protests exploded in Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle and elsewhere in the summer of 2020 after George Floyd was killed. “I think I would have had to bring the army immediately, Tr Trump said,” I think I had to do it again. ” In the campaign follow -up before the 2024 elections, Trump is similar to the cities of “crime”, such as Chicago and New York. “You need to ask for a governor or the mayor,” he said to an IOWA audience. I’m not waiting next time.
He didn’t. In Los Angeles, the recent explosion of protests on migration raids offered Trump the opportunity to do it. On June 8, “We will have troops everywhere,” he said. The previous day, the President had jumped Gavin Newsom, the democratic governor of the state to federalize the National Guards of California by directing to two thousand soldiers La; This number was then increased to four thousand. A president took the guards for the first time without the introduction of a governor’s national guards from the governor George Wallace, who had been in the control of the national guards from the Governor George Wallace, and the guards for the first time without meeting a governor’s meeting. Ominously, in the event of Trump’s “rebellion or rebellion against the authority of the United States Government, or the danger of rebellion or rebellion ,, the order issued under the auspices of the 1903 law, which allowed the President to call the required number, was not limited to California or the existing protests. He gave the authority to deploy the protests to places where the “occurred or occurrence”.
On June 9, Trump watched this with the order of distributing seven hundred sailors to strengthen California guards. Def Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, “Even if it is not Gavin Newsom, even if it is not Gavin Newsom, Gavin Newsom, we have an obligation to“ even if it is not Gavin Newsom. There is no rebellion. Tr Trump added, “He is trying to produce chaos and crisis on the ground for his political purposes. The President rejected this claim with a kind of exaggeration that served to prove his purpose.“ If we don’t do the job, he insisted.
Lawyers will discuss whether Trump’s action is legally allowed. California argued that the inheritance violated the law of the federalization of the guards (a change to the statute, foresee that “for these purposes to be given the orders through the state governors” and represented an intervention against the state sovereignty. It threatens serious injury in the balance of constitutional power and constitutes a dangerous precedent for future military activities.
This is more about the decomposition of the technical regulation. Trump’s actions reveal deep questions about the risks of raising the army in the internal law enforcement officers, and whether Trump is always interested in playing the role of the strong man, whether he was more inclined than the first period to abuse the army for his political satisfaction. Indeed, as the guard members arrived at La, the heavy artillery was evacuated in the capital of Trump’s long-term military parade on June 14th to commemorate the two-hundred anniversary of the seventy-ninth birthday of the seventy-ninth birthday. APPLICATIONS He spoke to a sample of the equipment in a useful way: twenty-eight M1a1 Abrams tank, twenty-eight m2 Bradley fighting vehicle, four paleds, four paladin howitzer, sixteen AH-64 helicopters, sixteen AH-64 APACHE helicopters and sixteen UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.
As the tanks overthrew the Constitutional Street and the legal war progresses, the real world risk will deal with the threat of preventing Trump by the judiciary to take a much more conclusive step in calling the law of rebellion. Currently, the guards and marine pies are limited to what they can do; The Posse Comitatus law prevents the army from exercising the forces of local law forces. The call of the Danger Law will encourage the administration to use the army more aggressively-execution, arrest and other law enforcement activities against the civilian population. Trump has been itchy to use the uprising law for years. In the first period, Cooler Heads was spoken, but Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi was shy about whether he would release now in recent days. Pursuant to the extensively expressed law, the president alone can determine when the “rebellion” conditions are sufficient to use the army and how long this power should last.
The law of danger was recently called in 1992 when President George HW Bush responded to Los Angeles because four white police officers beat Rodney King. However, in this case, the governor of the state and the democratic mayor of the city both sought a federal intervention. According to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Trump said, “Can’t you hit them? Just hit the legs or something?” The uprising action in his hand is a terrible possibility.
The founders of the country circulating under the abuse of George III understood the twin dangers of an uncontrolled general manager and a standing army. “In times of peace, he remained among the armies standing without the consent of our legislature organs,” he complained. “It affected the army independent and superior to civilian power.” While the delegates to the Constitutional agreement were allocated on the army, James Madison presented a warning that should echo today. “Defense tools against foreign danger, ı he warned,“ There has always been instruments of persecution at home. ” It is not an exaggeration to think that Trump’s pursuit or those on the streets of Los Angeles can only be the beginning. ♦
