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“The Trump administration is following a playbook: cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem like peaceful protesters are a mob by firing gas pellets and tear gas canisters at them,” JB Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois, where Trump’s storm troopers already wreaking havoc in Chicago, said on Monday. “Why? To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act so that he can send the military to our city.”

Legal experts have long warned that the two-century-old statute is dangerously broad and in desperate need of updating for the exact reasons it’s such an appealing tool for Trump.

The language of the law is vague — a gift to a president with dictatorial aims. It grants the federal executive power to deploy troops to suppress “any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” in a state that “opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.” “Nothing in the text of the Insurrection Act defines ‘insurrection,’ ‘rebellion,’ ‘domestic violence,’ or any of the other key terms used in setting forth the prerequisites for deployment,” noted Nunn. “Absent statutory guidance, the Supreme Court decided early on that this question is for the president alone to decide.”

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 71 points 2 days ago

The same asshole that plotted a coup while stoking an ACTUAL insurrection and then sat by for hours, hoping that they'd carry out violence, possibly murder, on his own VP and people like Pelosi. Wanting to invoke the Insurrection Act.

[-] Tilgare@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

He thinks we're both the same. Problem is, violence comes predominantly from the right - that's why they did exactly what he wanted, and why the left is not. That, and education I guess.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago

Calling Trump “sinister” is an insult to honest hard-working villains.

[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 26 points 2 days ago

I can't imagine a reason to invoke that is not sinister under current conditions

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 16 points 2 days ago

funny thing is any inserection that happens is about fighting him to restore the rule of the constitution.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

I am pretty sure we will need a new one by then.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

The one we have is pretty darn good. I would love a tribunal executive and a parliment style house.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

The one under which Native Americans didn’t have the right to vote until the 1970s? I don’t agree that it’s pretty good.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

As you point out that is no longer the case. Its a living constitution and what we have currently is different from the outset.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

And yet it's nearly impossible to amend despite the desperate need for amendments being glaring to anyone

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

Because he's a dictator?

[-] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago

TL;DR: This is Trump's take on the Reichstag fire.

[-] Five@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago
[-] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago

Further descent into fascism is not a distraction.

The pedo is doing a lot of bad things all at once, because he is a bad person, not to distract you from one bad thing in particular

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Why is it not an option that he's doing both? That's what he's doing whether intentionally or not. And you have to assume a lot of these ideas came from other people who want the Epstein files to stay unreleased

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