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To: Enigo54

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes. The purpose of the act – in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807 – is to limit the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States. It was passed as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction and was updated in 1956 and 1981.

The act specifically applies only to the United States Army and, as amended in 1956, the United States Air Force. Although the act does not explicitly mention the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps, the Department of the Navy has prescribed regulations that are generally construed to give the act force with respect to those services as well. The act does not apply to the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state’s governor. The United States Coast Guard, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security, is not covered by the Posse Comitatus Act either, primarily because although the Coast Guard is an armed service, it also has both a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency mission.

The title of the act comes from the legal concept of posse comitatus, the authority under which a county sheriff, or other law officer, conscripts any able-bodied person to assist in keeping the peace.


The United States Coast Guard, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security, is not covered by the Posse Comitatus Act

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286 posted on 01/05/2019 11:01:25 AM PST by Steven W.
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To: Steven W.

Nicely done! o7


288 posted on 01/05/2019 11:02:34 AM PST by Enigo54 (Hank Reardon was right)
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To: Steven W.

The Posse Comitatus Act And RelatedMatters: The Use of the Military to Execute Civilian Law
Updated just two months ago
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42659.pdf


297 posted on 01/05/2019 11:11:31 AM PST by Enigo54 (Hank Reardon was right)
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To: Steven W.

The United States Coast Guard, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security, is not covered by the Posse Comitatus Act

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POTUS also made sure the Coast Guard GOT PAID despite the Shutdown.

#ThisIsGettingGood


490 posted on 01/05/2019 3:06:36 PM PST by TheTexasMom (Q is my homie)
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