They are doing it, in great part, because their favorite party is lying about it too.
Professor Turley was making the rounds this morning on news stations trying to explain that the Insurrection Act is ambiguous enough to support a President’s judgment that an “insurrection” is occurring in a state when the governor or a state legislature refuses to request such support, and send in the Guard on his own authority. The professor also pointed out that even if Trump were blocked from doing so in a state, he clearly has the power to use other states’ National Guard units in the state that is resisting, if the other states agree. The description of the sanctuary cities and states as engaging in neo-Confederate nullification is quite accurate.
Meanwhile, the New York Times, leading its fellow travelers in Orwellian spin, is doing its damnedest to back the incipient Stars and Bars. Here (gift link), a biased lawyer writes that “No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants.” How is that for a false framing? But the Times published it anyway. Unethical quote: “Can presidents unleash the armed forces on their own people based on facts that they contrive?” Yeah, that scene above, where the Chicago police deliberately stood down, was “contrived.”
Then we have this consequentialist argument: “In 2020, Trump Intervened in Portland’s Protests. They Got Even Worse.” First, how do “protests” get “worse”? They were riots. Second, the mess in Portland didn’t involve attacks on Federal law enforcement and defiance of Federal law. Third, the Mongo Principle (No, don’t use force, it will only make him mad) is not a valid approach to law enforcement.
Ethics Alarms 
Again, the President is the Commander in Chief. He can use National Guards to enforce the law. Seriously, do they not remember or care when Ike used the National Guard to integrate Central High School or when LBJ used it in Alabama after Wallace literally stood in the doorway to block black students from registering.
There is ample precedent for the President to invoke the National Guard to enforce Federal Law. The problem that is facing the Trump Administration is a lawless court engaged in legal insurrection to stop anything the President undertakes to enforce immigration law. In order to stop the power of these rogue judges, the President should make the step to defy the lower courts on all matters that infringes on the duties of the Executive Branch under Article II of the Constitution. The Constitution assumes that all branches of government are coequal, and neither allows for an judicial supremacy (what we have today) nor executive supremacy; there are checks and balances. One of the checks the executive branch has on the judicial branch is the power to ignore rulings.
The Supreme Court has to step in and reign in the powers of the lower federal courts in matters related to the administration, and bring constitutional clarity. Trump may have to force that in a big way, not by challenge each ruling one by one and lose valuable time in the process, but by ignoring the lower courts altogether.
And lest we forget, Presidents have ignored the Supreme Court too. Lincoln defied Chief Justice Taney on the issue of habeas corpus. Andrew Jackson defied Chief Justice John Marshall with “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it” in Worcester v. Georgia (1832).
I am shocked, SHOCKED that someone would dare to say that a political party and the media are liars……
Oh, wait…….
You’re talking about that political party and that media…..
Political lefts politicians, their lapdog media, and nearly all of their party in general have shown me over and over again that there really is something to the old adage that says something like, “If their mouth is moving, they’re spreading lies”.
If you think that shows prejudice I think you’re wrong; because, that opinion is based on observation, reason, and real world actual experience, prejudice is not based on these things.
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A quote from the New York Times article.
The Portland protests of 2020 may have begun as rallies for racial justice and against police violence, but whatever messages had initially motivated protesters became muddled once Mr. Trump sent federal forces to downtown Portland and the crowds there grew to the thousands.
The demonstrations devolved into protests against federal agents.
“A lot of the work we’d done to dismantle white supremacy got sold out,” said Teressa Raiford, the founder of a nonprofit that works on racial issues and civilian oversight of the police in Portland. “The priority was, ‘We’ve got to get rid of Trump.’”
Of course, part of this was because leaders in Congress (not just isolated whack jobs) started whining about pEaCeFuL pRoTeStOrS being kidnapped and taken away in uNmArKeD vAnS.
[From your host: I don’t know what the hell our vigilante comment bomber is bitching about now, but whenever he begins, “Oh come on, Jack…” I tune out….Jack]