Trump says invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act, which permits a president to deploy military inside

[NoRoadUntravelled]

"As we speak, I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults, and the wanton destruction of property," he said. "We will end it now."

He called on governors to use their National Guard units to "dominate the streets" and said he would deploy the active duty military if governors failed to use the National Guard more forcefully.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/national-guard-troops-deployed-white-house-trump-calls/story?id=71004151

[FarPoint]

1. Try and stay safe folks in D.C....

tRump has placed the city, our Capitol in danger....

[albacore]

2. Bloody Sunday... 1905... and you know what happened later.

[crazylikafox]

3. that's exactly what I was thinking of when I saw the troops on horses charging the protesters today

[albacore]

4. A nightmare scenario for you.

Horse, rider, or protestor gets killed.

Bad shit.

[roamer65]

5. Toobin said the 1807 Insurrection Act requires states request federal troops.

The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 forbids use of federal troops as domestic law enforcement.

Sending federal troops into a state without approval will basically be an illegal invasion.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

6. True. But he breaks the laws of the land all the time and no one stops him.

This is my biggest concern.

[roamer65]

7. The ball is in the governors court.

They can refuse to request them.

[sarisataka]

8. That is incorrect

And if you think it through it is obvious that a state's approval is idea but not mandatory