[Dilbert San Diego]

What are the exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act?

For example , President Johnson sent federal troops to Detroit in 1967 to help deal with that riot.

President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock in 1957 to enforce a school integration court order.

So while we understand about the Posse Comitatus Act clearly there must be some exceptions that can be used.

I have to imagine that the president got some legal advice from the attorney general, or someone else, that he would have authority to use federal troops and or federalize the National Guard in various localities around the country.

There seems to be an evolving liberal view that the president is over-reaching with talk of sending federal troops to put down these riots.

Don Lemon on CNN just lamented that we may see the president using federal troops against peaceful protesters. Don Lemon apparently does not have the reasoning ability or nuanced thinking ability to make a distinction between peaceful protesters and anarchists and arsonists.

[BigEdLB]

NYC , DC, Seattle, Minneapolis, LA, SF, Philly, to start

[Zhang Fei]

[What are the exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act?

For example , President Johnson sent federal troops to Detroit in 1967 to help deal with that riot.

President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock in 1957 to enforce a school integration court order.

So while we understand about the Posse Comitatus Act clearly there must be some exceptions that can be used.]

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Many state and local officials will not act to protect the property rights of their residents, but are actually aiding and abetting the law breakers in their destruction and thievery. Trump could, therefore, invoke Eisenhower’s justification:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act#2006%E2%80%9307_suspension
[In the mid-20th century, the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower used an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, derived from the Enforcement Acts, to send federal troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1957 school desegregation crisis. The Arkansas governor had opposed desegregation after the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1954 in the Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. The Enforcement Acts, among other powers, allowed the president to call up military forces when state authorities were either unable or unwilling to suppress violence that were in opposition to the citizens’ constitutional rights.[5]]

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Given that Democratic governors and municipal officials are now complicit in the destruction wrought by rioters and will neither protect business owners nor restore order, I think Trump is well within his authority in putting troops on the streets. The question is whether he has enough troops and what the electoral impact is going to be. Given that the press has been doing the whole Orange Hitler routine pretty much since the inauguration, I’m not even sure it’s even a risky play, politically. They’ve cried wolf way too often.

And Trump is held responsible by voters for rioting in the streets, even though it’s not really within the normal scope of his authority to put riots down. Voters aren’t legal scholars. They’re not up on the Posse Comitatus Act. If Trump’s going to be held responsible anyway, then he should use Federal resources and get this resolved. Bush wasn’t responsible for Katrina’s aftermath. He was held responsible anyway. There’s a lesson in that.

[grateful]

Insurrection Act of 1807: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act

[Morpheus2009]

I want Philadelphia resolved ASAP. That’s my local city and if the local government doesn’t give a #%#$ then bring on the feds to kick it back into order.

[voicereason]

Don’t forget the Bonus Army marchers which were shut down by the army back in 1932. Sadly, both MacArthur and Patton decided to just follow orders.