Saturday, June 07, 2025

Dear Stephen Miller:

Now do J6.

Sauce for the goose, motherfucker.
Small penis energy from a federal government agency. Especially that “life long consequences will follow!” Really? Especially after ICE agents rammed a car through a group of protestors? Where does ICE get the authority to run people down on the streets?

Even the Sheriff’s Department used rubber bullets, not vehicles. And rubber bullets are bad enough.
Trust Trump to escalate this to Black Watch Plaid. Trump also needs to learn the story of the boy who cried “WOLF!” Calling out the Marines for people protesting in the streets? Yeah; that’s not gonna have consequences….

Further, I direct and delegate actions as necessary for the Secretary of Defense to coordinate with the Governors of the States and the National Guard Bureau in identifying and ordering into Federal service the appropriate members and units of the National Guard under this authority. The members and units of the National Guard called into Federal service shall be at least 2,000 National Guard personnel and the duration of duty shall be for 60 days or at the discretion of the Secretary of Defense. In addition, the Secretary of Defense may employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion.
Which is where this gets stupid.
"Rioters and looters”? Take a deep breath there, Jackboot Jim.  Even those words don’t allow you to invoke the Insurrection Act or violate 18 USC 1385.

If Hegseth doesn’t know that, I expect the Marines and their commanders do:
Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, or the Space Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Yes, Trump could pardon them. But that would be the turd in the national punch bowl.  And do Marines want to be in the position of needing mass pardons? Especially since accepting a pardon is accepting guilt for the crime?

No, it’s not neat and tidy. But it just gets messier and messier.  ETTD.

As for the Insurrection Act (10 USC 251-255), even Trump seems to understand (so fat) that a day of protest around a building in LA doesn’t exactly fit even the vague language of the law:
Section 253 has two parts. The first allows the president to use the military in a state to suppress “any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” that “so hinders the execution of the laws” that any portion of the state’s inhabitants are deprived of a constitutional right and state authorities are unable or unwilling to protect that right. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy relied on this provision to deploy troops to desegregate schools in the South after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

The second part of Section 253 permits the president 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.” This provision is so bafflingly broad that it cannot possibly mean what it says, or else it authorizes the president to use the military against any two people conspiring to break federal law.
Yes, section 253 could be used the way the Brennan Center says, but that would be using a sledgehammer (or a thermonuclear device) to swat a fly. Even Trump isn’t going to try that. Not unless LA turns into Seattle in his first term. And there’s no indication that’s going to happen.

The likeliest outcome is that Miller shouts some more about “insurrections” and Trump declares his mighty authority chased the elephants away, and very little else happens.  Trump is just going to remind people of how he cleared people (violently) from the streets so he could hold up a Bible. He’s not going to cover himself with glory, especially a week before his birthday party. No, he won’t see that; but half the pleasure of schadenfreude is seeing what the victim can’t see.

For the rest, this is the problem when you elect a man-child because you don’t like your economic circumstances.
There. That’s the reality. Trump can’t keep everybody thinking a few blocks of LA is the entire state of California. Or a threat to the Union. Besides, Trump was so worried, he went to the UFC tonight: You can’t play the guy too tough to go to the Situation Room, and simultaneously say the republic is so endangered and federal power was so thwarted in LA that even the National Guard is not enough.
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