California Governor Gavin Newsom has formally requested Trump administration officials to rescind the order to deploy the National Guard and return control of the force to California, calling the initial order unlawful and “intentionally designed to inflame the situation.”
“I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command,” Newsom wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed. Rescind the order. Return control to California.”
I don’t remember the law or EO that made it so, but sometime after September 11th the President was granted the power to take command of the National Guard. That’s not what the Constitution says? Throw it on the pile.
In practical terms, in any given situation where both are giving conflicting or even antagonistic orders, do you listen to the governor of your state or the President of the United States?
It seems ignoring the constitution while continually & increasingly granting power to the federal government for more than a century may have had some consequences.
That’s thee theme of this century, didn’t you get the memo?
The Consequences of the 20th
Kinda depends on the orders
Spin the scenario around; follow the orders of a sane President or a regressive, criminal Governor?
Except that judgement call is largely subjective. The above is literally what any conservative voter who happens to be in the Guard would think of the current situation.
It’s a messy situation to be in, one fraught with desertion, courts-martial, and sabotage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door
The conservative voter is going to side with the conservative politician, regardless of which office they hold.
Maybe. I guess we’ll see.
They’re required to serve at the president’s command as leader of the military/executive branch. As long as it doesn’t violate the constitution. Which they swore an oath to.
If trump gives any orders that go against that, then they are required to disobey them. They will not be allowed to use them as a defense during trial, or if something like the Nürburgring trial happens.
Right now, it’s not against the constitution. Yet. There’s a loophole they’re using and Gavin knows it. He’s also too much of a coward to use similar tactics against trump, so he’ll high road California right into federal control.
Minor thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nürburgring compared to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials
Ah, crap, good catch, thank you :) My bad.
The last time it happened was pretty much your spin scenario. I was 5 at the time and remember my parents following it in the newspaper.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/march-20/lbj-sends-federal-troops-to-alabama
I don’t think that’s right, other articles refer to another time the President deployed the National Guard without the respective governor’s consent, and it was back in like 1965.
Ultimately, the President is the head of the military, and the National Guard is a part of that.
The National Guard is not part of the military.
The National Guard is part of the militia. 10 USC 246.
The relevant difference here is that the president does not have the power to appoint National Guard officers. That power is reserved to the states under Article I, Section 8, Clause 16.
Newsom is constitutionally empowered to disband the California National Guard, by discharging their Commissioned and Non-Commissioned officers.
There you go. Demote/dismiss anyone that followed Trump’s orders… assuming you have a spine, which Newsom doesn’t.
Move their commission to the state guard.