• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    if Trump were to federalize National Guard units, there’s nothing the state could do to prevent it; a presidential order preempts state authority.

    Why would blue states fear only red state national guard if this is the case? The local guard would have to enforce the federal edicts, right?

    I guess if they don’t, the only two options are do nothing or confront the invading guard, the latter of which sounds a lot like civil war.

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      6 days ago

      if Trump were to federalize National Guard units, there’s nothing the state could do to prevent it; a presidential order preempts state authority.

      And yet I remember not so long ago at the Texas border where Abbott refused to have the NG stand down when Biden ordered it. So there’s precedent already there to ignore Cheeto in Charge’s orders