During a Tuesday hearing at the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, the DOJ urged a three-judge panel to issue an emergency stay of a lower court order and allow the Trump administration’s deployment of the California National Guard to continue in Los Angeles — going so far as to argue a president’s federalization of militia can’t be second-guessed by the courts, even if the chief executive mobilized forces from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., simultaneously.

    • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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      It doesn’t.

      When you’ve got control of the armed services of the government. And you tell the opposition “we’ve got the guns. Fuck are you going to do about it”. Law becomes paper. And the only thing left is the law of the jungle. In other words. War