During a Tuesday hearing at the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, the DOJ urged a three-judge panel to issue an emergency stay of a lower court order and allow the Trump administration’s deployment of the California National Guard to continue in Los Angeles — going so far as to argue a president’s federalization of militia can’t be second-guessed by the courts, even if the chief executive mobilized forces from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., simultaneously.

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    Isn’t the national guard supposed to be a state level militia?

    Makes zero sense that the federal government should dictate where and how they are used. The feds should be going to states and asking to borrow their militia for whatever happens, typically national disaster response and not murdering political dissenters.

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    quashing protests, will eventually leader to larger protests and then uprising, and maybe a rebellion eventually.

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    That’s fascism, folks.

    Arm yourselves.

    Also, maybe don’t do something dumb like vote 3rd party or abstain from voting next time around. Y’all were warned. Now it’s happening.

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      10 hours ago

      What about all the votes that were lost, removed, not counted? The way the elections, gerrymandering and more, Its all rigged.

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    This is dictatorship. It’s mild only because no one is fighting back. The moment someone tries the gloves will come off.

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    And Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers say he’s totally innocent too…

    trumps been using the DOJ as his own lawyers, they’re always gonna say he can do whatever he wants. Literally, they said nothing about this can be weighed on by any court:

    “Our view is that this statute commits the decision whether to call up the forces to the president’s unreviewable discretion,” Shumate answered. “So no, there’s no role for the court to play in reviewing that decision.”

    It two trump judges and one from Biden. And while the trump judges clearly disagree, they’re gonna kick it to the SC.

    Which is what was always going to happen here. Newsom isn’t dumb enough to think a lawsuit would fix anything, he’s just grandstanding because he wants to run for president.