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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I asked you first-- and it was a serious question. Does the POTUS have authority to call out the National Guard in a case like this?


151 posted on 03/18/2005 5:03:42 PM PST by Clara Lou (Hillary Clinton: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: Clara Lou
I asked you first-- and it was a serious question. Does the POTUS have authority to call out the National Guard in a case like this?

If I'm not mistaken, LBJ called up the Guard to protect the safety of civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Whether things have changed since then, I don't know. But given the broad powers of the Presidency, I don't think it unreasonable to suggest that he could at least do something.

205 posted on 03/18/2005 5:25:06 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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