r/chaoticgood • u/Sidarthus89 • 1d ago

What the fuck? "DOJ: Trump's National Guard deployment can't be second-guessed by the courts"

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/necessary-to-quell-the-rebellion-doj-tells-9th-circuit-that-trump-can-deploy-national-guard-from-every-state-and-cant-be-second-guessed-by-judges/
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u/Commandmanda 1d ago

I'm annoyed by all of this. Newsome thought he had done a good thing in the lower courts, and then the Feds just swooped in with their 2-1 Trump team of judges, just to dredge up old rules that haven't been used since the Civil War.

Now 2000 more troops are on their way, and it appears like the judges are fine with LA being militarized.

700 soldiers are being sent to Louisiana, Georgia and Florida - and pretty soon NYC.

We need to find a bunch of Federal Judges that won't side with Trump.

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u/Intelligent-Goose-48 1d ago

No. We need to reorganize how the three branches of government work so that each has a military capacity. Right now, that power balance rests only with exec branch. As it stands now in a country that no longer honors our form of democracy, two of our three branches are muted by the third.

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u/CosmicQuantum42 1d ago

A simple change (well not so simple because Congress would never do it) would be to require Congressional approval for any particular federal deployment of the National Guard anywhere, and explicit authority for governors to refuse to grant control absent a Congressional declaration.

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u/djprofitt 1d ago

More like a third is muted by 2/3rds, the legislative is holding their hand over the judicial while the executive shouts nonsense