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[Vermont Lt]

Not you—but go read the other threads on this. The Old Fart Brigade is polishing their jump boots and looking for loops to blouse their elastic waist pants. They are getting ready to rock n roll!

[Nabron]

“Posse Comitatus” only applies to the (”regular”) Army and Navy. The Coast Guard, the Marine Corps, and “Special Forces” are exempt.

Disaster relief is different, and then there is the War Powers Act, and the National Security Act...

If there’s an emergency, and especially at a governor’s request, federal assets can be used to enforce state laws.

Originally, “Posse Comitatus” kept territorial governors from using federal troops to do stuff that state assets ought to do. States would just not make the assets (they would cost state money, and the Army was free).

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks cyn.