Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days agoI, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
The supreme court seems to bear out that Trump’s orders are constitutional and legal, and therefore they are following legitimate orders.
The problem isn’t that they are traitors, the problem is that they aren’t, but they should be.
potpotato@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Their actions in LA were ruled illegal and multiple cities have federal cases about Trump’s use of Title 10. Not sure how the Supreme Court has weighed in.
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
The Posse Comitatus Act makes using troops to enforce federal law illegal, it’s true, and the UCMJ does say violating the law is an illegal order. But it’s not unconstitutional, and given the order came directly from the president and given the “unitary executive” bullshit that the supreme court has been on recently, I think it might be dubious that the LA ruling would survive an appeal that made it to the supreme court.