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“The Trump administration is following a playbook: cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem like peaceful protesters are a mob by firing gas pellets and tear gas canisters at them,” JB Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois, where Trump’s storm troopers already wreaking havoc in Chicago, said on Monday. “Why? To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act so that he can send the military to our city.”
Legal experts have long warned that the two-century-old statute is dangerously broad and in desperate need of updating for the exact reasons it’s such an appealing tool for Trump.
The language of the law is vague — a gift to a president with dictatorial aims. It grants the federal executive power to deploy troops to suppress “any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” in a state that “opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.” “Nothing in the text of the Insurrection Act defines ‘insurrection,’ ‘rebellion,’ ‘domestic violence,’ or any of the other key terms used in setting forth the prerequisites for deployment,” noted Nunn. “Absent statutory guidance, the Supreme Court decided early on that this question is for the president alone to decide.”
funny thing is any inserection that happens is about fighting him to restore the rule of the constitution.
I am pretty sure we will need a new one by then.
The one we have is pretty darn good. I would love a tribunal executive and a parliment style house.
The one under which Native Americans didn’t have the right to vote until the 1970s? I don’t agree that it’s pretty good.
As you point out that is no longer the case. Its a living constitution and what we have currently is different from the outset.
And yet it’s nearly impossible to amend despite the desperate need for amendments being glaring to anyone