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Trump's Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All (www.aclu.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Mee@reddthat.com to c/politics@lemmy.world

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There’s growing concern that President Donald Trump might invoke the Insurrection Act to bring National Guard troops under federal control and deploy them within the U.S. This speculation may be partly because one of President Trump’s Inauguration Day executive orders, which declared a national emergency at the southern border set an April 20 deadline for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to recommend whether to use the Insurrection Act. That date is approaching quickly.

Make no mistake: If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act to activate federalized troops for mass deportation—whether at the border or somewhere else in the country—it would be unprecedented, unnecessary, and wrong. But the president has already been increasing domestic military use. As recently as April 11th, he issued a new memorandum with yet another chill-inducing title: "Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions.” It’s worth repeating that there is no invasion of America, and if President Trump doubts that, he could consult himself. Last month he declared on Truth Social that the (fictional) “Invasion of our Country is OVER.” Yet under his new directive, the Defense Department is claiming new and potentially expansive powers over large swaths of federal land—including where US citizens and other border residents live. .

Let’s step back a bit first and recall the military’s proper, limited role on U.S. soil, and the dangerous steps President Trump is already taking in service of his cruel anti-immigrant, anti-American agenda.

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[-] SoupBrick@pawb.social 10 points 3 weeks ago

The "should" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Is it coincidence that the cutoff date is Hitler's birthday?

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

Its also Easter Sunday.

Not a bad time to declare Martial Law with a fake as hell national emergency because most people are at home with family and not out and about.

[-] coyootje@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think so but they'd probably see it as a happy little accident... He seems to really like 90 days for everything he does.

[-] ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

America needs to get revamp the constitution hard. The president has too much power and the checks and balances don’t work. This shouldn’t be possible.

[-] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

The constitution has plenty of checks for this and it starts with Congress (Article I).

Republicans can grow a spine and stop this today. They could have voted to impeach him twice. They don’t have to fund this! They choose to. This is the obeying in advance thing.

Three representatives in the house absolutely can pull a John McCain and 👎the slim margin and hold this up. From Rand Paul to Susan Collin’s and everyone in between they can find reasons to hold their vote and bring this action down. Just say hey they lied about social security or they lied about the tariffs and go from there.

[-] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

They do work, the other branches are just fully captured. He was impeached twice. If congress did their jobs he wouldn't have finished his first term, much less had a second term. He was taken to court and the Supreme Court said he was basically untouchable. Democrats refused to take any action against him, presumably out of fear they'd be seen as reactionary (LOL) and hoping to sway some moderates that would be dissuaded be that. The issue is the people in these branches, many of them with constituents who supported their inaction. If everyone in the other branches was replaced today with people who cared about democracy, things would be very different. Unfortunately, half of all voters legitimately want this and have been supporting people who promised to make it happen. America is a democracy and this is what the people want apparently. Trump just matched his highest ever approval rating. Democracy working as intended.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I do wonder if anything we came up with would be weak to bad faith.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

If all of the checks and balances are effectively under one person's control then nope. In the end I don't think there's any magical text you can write that would've avoided this (not Trump specifically but Presidential tyranny). The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

[-] Nay@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago

Turns out the constitution is weak to ignorant voters

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago

Adama would like to have a word.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Just calling the ACLU for staunchly defending Citizens United, which is a pretty fucking core part of how we fucking got here in the first place.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Don't worry, Democrat governors are already doing that for him

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/14/gyww-a14.html

[-] juboba@reddthat.com 0 points 3 weeks ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBOM2x0b93E

this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025

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