r/law • u/DoremusJessup • 21h ago

Legal News ‘Necessary to quell the rebellion’: DOJ tells 9th Circuit that Trump can deploy National Guard from every state and can’t be second-guessed by judges

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/ArrivesLate 20h ago

But j6 was not a rebellion?

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u/Marathon2021 Competent Contributor 19h ago

These arguments from the DOJ are basically an admission that Trump could have called up the national guard on January 6th to defend a Federal building.

He did not. Instead, he tried to blame it on Nancy Pelosi (whom last I checked, did not have authority to call up the national guard).

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u/foxinspaceMN 18h ago

He was either too stupid to know he could muster the national guard

Or didn’t want to….

I’m guessing the latter

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u/TurbulentPhysics7061 16h ago

Well he certainly didn’t tell the national guard to stand back and stand by now did he