... except for that posse comitatus thing ...
He can’t use Title X troops to enforce laws on US soil short of a declared rebellion.
Now the FBI and DHS, they could be mobilized.
“He can’t use Title X troops to enforce laws on US soil short of a declared rebellion.”
Sedition is rebellion. And the federal bureaucracy doesn’t qualify as civilians. The president, as the chief executive, has control over the executive bureaucracy. If Cruz finds that the bureaucracy is involved in sedition, he certainly can call up the military to squelch the rebellion.