Well, Newsom is suing which is… fine. I think he should deploy his remaining 20k troops to kick the (4700 and counting) feds out, but that’s playing with fire. Going forward, as I suggested, states need to make sure they control their Guard deployments. This could take the form of legislation or executive orders at the state level, or, since it’s already federal law that the orders go through the governor, a simple memo informing the Guard that anyone from command down to rank & file will be immediately arrested for following illegal orders.
And on your other comment, yes, by the letter of the law that was illegal, although it was a slightly more complicated situation because as the article states:
Eisenhower and Faubus agreed that the Arkansas National Guard would remain at the school to maintain order, so the black students could attend.
… then Faubus reneged on the agreement.
Whatever. Right now, in the time that we are currently living through, during which an unhinged aspiring dictator is deploying military forces on US soil for immoral reasons, is not the time to equivocate about legality.
A simple memo reminding them of the penalties for following illegal orders, and clear examples of such illegal orders seems like a really smart move with minimal downside
Newsom is currently the lawful commander of the California National Guard. He should be directly ordering them to stand down. What is it with this limp-dicked centrist bullshit of “well…I’ll file a lawsuit!”
Fucking cowards. I hope Trump arrests Newsom and has him executed. That would be the fate this coward deserves.
I was with you on the first half, but definitely not on the second half.
If you support executing your political opponents by means of fascism, what makes that any less evil than Trump executing any politician he dislikes (and it seems we’re on that road)?
Well, Newsom is suing which is… fine. I think he should deploy his remaining 20k troops to kick the (4700 and counting) feds out, but that’s playing with fire. Going forward, as I suggested, states need to make sure they control their Guard deployments. This could take the form of legislation or executive orders at the state level, or, since it’s already federal law that the orders go through the governor, a simple memo informing the Guard that anyone from command down to rank & file will be immediately arrested for following illegal orders.
And on your other comment, yes, by the letter of the law that was illegal, although it was a slightly more complicated situation because as the article states:
… then Faubus reneged on the agreement.
Whatever. Right now, in the time that we are currently living through, during which an unhinged aspiring dictator is deploying military forces on US soil for immoral reasons, is not the time to equivocate about legality.
A simple memo reminding them of the penalties for following illegal orders, and clear examples of such illegal orders seems like a really smart move with minimal downside
Newsom is currently the lawful commander of the California National Guard. He should be directly ordering them to stand down. What is it with this limp-dicked centrist bullshit of “well…I’ll file a lawsuit!”
Fucking cowards. I hope Trump arrests Newsom and has him executed. That would be the fate this coward deserves.
I was with you on the first half, but definitely not on the second half.
If you support executing your political opponents by means of fascism, what makes that any less evil than Trump executing any politician he dislikes (and it seems we’re on that road)?
You kind of answered your own question