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To: Wneighbor; xone

To me it looks as though these sections are exclusive (right word?) - meaning separate usages of the act. IOW, the first one requires the requset of legislature or governor if legislature can’t, of disturbances in that state. But the other usages seem to be indepdenent of the state’s request. Informed legal knowledge welcome.

https://policy.defense.gov/portals/11/documents/hdasa/references/insurrection_act.pdf

Insurrection Act

10 U.S.C. §§ 331-335
Sec. 331. Federal aid for State governments
Whenever there is an insurrections in any State against its government, the President
may, upon the request of its legislature or of its governor if the legislature cannot be
convened, call into Federal service such of the militia of the other States, in the number
requested by that State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to
suppress the insurrection.

Sec. 332. Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority
Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or
assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable
to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial
proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use
such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress
the rebellion.

Sec. 333. Interference with State and Federal law
The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means,
shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any
insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—

(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States
within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege,
immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the
constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right,
privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or

(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes
the course of justice under those laws.
In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the
equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.

Sec. 334. Proclamation to disperse
Whenever the President considers it necessary to use the militia or the armed forces under
this chapter, he shall, by proclamation, immediately order the insurgents or those
obstructing the enforcement of the laws to disperse and retire peaceably to their abodes
within a limited time.

Sec. 335. Guam and Virgin Islands included as “State”
For purposes of this chapter, the term “State” includes Guam and the Virgin Islands.


928 posted on 11/02/2020 1:25:25 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the frm of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: little jeremiah

Weaponized COVID, assassination attempt?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8906205/Genome-sequencing-traces-likely-roots-White-House-coronavirus-strain.html

Two White House reporters caught nearly identical ‘rare’ strains of coronavirus, gene sequencing study finds

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center scientists sequenced the genomes of coronavirus samples taken from two people linked to the White House Outbreak

The New York Times says that those two people were journalists Michael Shear and Al Drago

Drago covered the Judge Amy Coney Barrett
‘superspreader’ event and Shear was on Air Force One with President Trump

Each person had a similar but ‘rare’ strain of coronavirus for the US, the researchers say in a study that has not yet been peer-reviewed

They say this finding makes it likely the two journalists - who say they had no prior contact - got coronavirus in the same outbreak

Testing others in the White House might help locate the source of infection, but the White House turned down CDC’s offer for contact tracing help


938 posted on 11/02/2020 1:56:59 PM PST by COUNTrecount ("I've always won, and I'm going to continue to win. And that's the way it is." -- Donald Trump)
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To: little jeremiah

Yes the forces can be invited or imposed. Real governors would handle it, as we have seen some don’t. During Rodney King riots, the governor requested the assistance.


942 posted on 11/02/2020 2:18:34 PM PST by xone
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