The countdown on April 20: The Americans are preparing for Trump’s great decision
Commentators usually evaluate the first hundred days as a time to assess the initial achievements of a new presidential administration. But it might be ten days ago, April 20, will celebrate a more important day in the Trump administration.
On that date, the president It will receive a report From the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Internal Security “on the conditions in the southern border of the United States and any recommendations on additional measures that may be necessary to obtain full operational control on the southern border, including whether the rebellion law should be called for 1807.”
This verb It gives The president is broad to use the army on American soil. The Brennan Center also explains, “The statute … is the basic exception to the Posse Comitaus Law, according to which federal military forces are generally prohibited from participating in civil law enforcement activities.”
The president can do this “when he is required by the legislative body of the state, or the ruler, if it is not possible to hold the legislative body, or to address the rebellion against that state … to address the rebellion, in any state, which makes the inappropriate to implement the law, or to be addressed for the rebellion, rebellion, illegal reform, reform, reform, or in the event of non -reform, or in the absence In the absence of it, or in any case.
Looking at the widening power of the rebellion law grant The presidents are also Unhappy President Trump has long thought of using it. In 2022, then President Donald Trump I mentioned“The next president must use every authority at his disposal to restore the system – and if necessary, this includes sending the National Guard or forces” to conduct law enforcement activities on the American soil.
In November 2023, he complained that during his first term, he was prevented, like AP Notes“From the army’s use to put out violence in cities and democratic countries in the first place.” In reference to the problem of violence in New York City and Chicago, President Trump said, “Next time, I am not waiting.”
A year later, President Trump He focused his thinking about the rebellion law On “the enemy from the inside”. As he put it, “we have some very bad people. We have some sick people, left -wing left -wing.
The Americans who object to the recall of the rebellion will be in some link. If they move to the streets to protest, this may give the administration an excuse to expand its use.
That is why it was not surprising on January 20, on the first day of his second term, Put The rebellion law on the table, this time as a tool to deal with the problem of illegal immigration. The plan seems to have already succeeded.
As Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller Describe“[I]The conditions of the employees go to the red state rulers and say, give us your national guards. We will publish them as immigration enforcement officers … The National Guard in Alabama will arrest illegal foreigners in Alabama and the National Guard Virginia in Virginia. “
Do not make mistakes, the rebellion law gives the president the vast power. In 1827, Supreme Court Make up.
The court said: “The authority” to decide whether the necessities stipulated in the United States constitution and the Congress law … where the president has the authority to call the militias, “the execution of the laws of the union, the suppression of rebellion, and the upbringing of invasions”, and it arose exclusively in the president.
The authority itself, “continued,” sudden emergency situations must be practiced on large occasions from the state, and under the circumstances that may be vital to the existence of the union. It is indispensable to unique and unrighteous obedience to orders to the full achievement of the object. “
The president alone He gets a decision What constitutes a “rebellion”, “rebellion” or “home violence”. Once the forces were deployed, it will not be easy to get them out of the streets anywhere the president believes is threatened by “radical left -wing crazy”.
For this reason, April 20 will be the result.
If the Americans move to the streets to protest against the president’s summons to the rebellion law, the president may use these protests as an excuse to extend the deployment of forces. The possibility of the army’s use of the Americans is a nightmare and will celebrate in tyranny.
People who wrote our constitution custom This nightmare is well. In 1768, the two British army regularly were sent to the undisciplined Massachusetts colony. Two years later, they opened fire on a group of colonists who were mocking rocks and snow balls. This event was named after the Boston massacre.
As an American progress center Notes“First Article, Article 8 and Article Two, Section 2 (of the Constitution) The military authority between the president and the Congress is divided to prevent any branch from using the armed forces to implement their own policy agenda, as the British did in Boston …”.
After ratifying the constitution, Congress approved the rebellion law to determine the president’s authority in emergency situations. From her legislation to this day, it was user 30 times. President Olysis is a grant alone represents six of them. He called the army to deal with the outbreak of violence during the period of rebuilding the war after importance.
In the twentieth century, each of the presidents Kennedy and Johnson used each three times, often to protect the civil rights of black Americans from the “rebel” gazans. The rebellion law was last used more than three decades ago, when President George Haw Bush sent forces to Los Angeles to deal with riots in the aftermath of Rodney King.
In all his reflections on the rebellion law, the protection of civil rights was not high on President Trump’s agenda. Instead, as his executive order Put itThe object will be “operational control on the southern border.”
But as soon as it is called for this purpose, the law can be used to involve the army in distributing illegal immigrants throughout the country.
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While we are thinking about what might happen on April 20, Americans who objected to the recall of the rebellion law will be in a bit of connection. If they move to the streets to protest, this may give the administration an excuse to expand its use.
Activist Daniel Hunter Right That “Trump’s desire for Criminalization of protests A clear matter … Trump will enjoy the opportunity to use the rebellion law on a broader scale against opponents. “
Another source of resistance can come from within the army itself. Finally, there are courts.
Despite the expansion of its decision in 1827, in subsequent cases, the Supreme Court It has indicated The nature of the authority granted to the heads of executives in emergency situations “necessarily means that there is a range of sincere judgment in relation to measures that must be taken in the strength of the meeting by force … such measures are depicted in good faith, in the face of the emergency, and are directly related to sincere faith.”
Americans cannot ask less, even from President Trump. If they do not get it, it is You must ask Courts to obtain them.
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