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usualgerman  ·  16 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Martial Law in South Korea

He wants to, sure. But I’m not sure he can get his way on this. There are, to quote Dune, “plots within plots”. Blue states and cities are absolutely looking to resist here. This probably means no cooperation or even actively hiding people. There will be court cases beyond that. And even if they lose, there might be a situation that’s the reverse of the border stuff from last year, where Blue areas call up the National Guard to protect people from deportation, giving Trump no good options. You can’t simply order your troops to fire on the National Guard, you might have a hard time arresting them. You can’t arrest sitting governors or mayors or whatever if they haven’t broken the law. And so what we have is a standoff and I’m not convinced that if he goes full retard and tries this stuff it goes the way he thinks it will.





user-inactivated  ·  15 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The Democrats ran on their draconian border policy, I do not think they will help very much. Court cases will work their way to the Supreme Court who has already been told their opinion.

I'm not sure how the national guard move would play out