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To: DuncanWaring

No, I cqan’t pin it down right now but I remember quite a bit of discussion about it at the time. I believe it was attached to a budget bill but I could be wrong on that. If you’re really interested you could probably Google it.


51 posted on 04/10/2008 8:54:21 AM PDT by oldfart (The most dangerous man is the one who has nothing left to lose.)
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To: oldfart

Recent congressionally passed law, now repealed, may have explicitly given this authority to the President. HR5122 also known as the John Warner Defense Authorization Act was signed by the president on Oct 17, 2006 John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007. Section 1076 Text of Hr5122 is titled “Use of the Armed Forces in major public emergencies”. Removing the legalese from the text, and combining multiple sentences, it provides that: The President may employ the armed forces to restore public order in any State of the United States the President determines hinders the execution of laws or deprives people of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law or opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws. The actual text is on page 322-323 of the legislation. As of 2008, these changes were repealed, changing the text of the law back to the original 1807 wording.

Got this from Wikipedia.


115 posted on 04/10/2008 10:59:02 AM PDT by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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