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Miles Archer

(21,557 posts)
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 08:03 AM Oct 23

SCOTUS and Trump's "freedom to deploy the National Guard whenever and wherever he chooses"

Should the conservative majority Supreme Court hand Donald Trump the freedom to deploy the National Guard whenever and wherever he chooses, the president’s “power grab’ will be complete and nothing will ever stop him again.

That is according to former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, who wrote on her Substack platform, that two cases coming before the court are part of his “drive to make the executive more powerful and to have that power come at the expense of the courts, Congress, and the people.”

As he pointed out, there are two critical cases the court is poised to take up. “The scope of presidential power to federalize and deploy National Guard troops,” and “Whether a president’s decision that such a move is merited is effectively unreviewable by the courts, as Trump alleges.”

Explaining out that giving Trump a license to deploy troops to cities on a whim is a direct assault on democracy, she wrote that the court will be reviewing ”an 1827 case, Martin v. Mott, where the Supreme Court held that ‘the authority to decide whether the exigency has arisen [to call up state militias] belongs exclusively to the president, and that his decision is conclusive upon all other persons.’”

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supreme-court-2674225699/

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SCOTUS and Trump's "freedom to deploy the National Guard whenever and wherever he chooses" (Original Post) Miles Archer Oct 23 OP
At this point, the question should be no_hypocrisy Oct 23 #1
If, by any miracle, America elects a Democratic president MurrayDelph Oct 23 #5
They will side with Trump. Why should we believe anyting else will happen? Chasstev365 Oct 23 #2
Wondering how America will handle it when Trump's National Guard hands us a 2025 "Kent State Moment" Miles Archer Oct 23 #3
It won't be Kent State...it'll be 10/1/17 Las Vegas. CincyDem Oct 23 #4

MurrayDelph

(5,709 posts)
5. If, by any miracle, America elects a Democratic president
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 11:03 AM
Oct 23
THIS Supreme Court will reverse themselves on a dime.

Miles Archer

(21,557 posts)
3. Wondering how America will handle it when Trump's National Guard hands us a 2025 "Kent State Moment"
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 08:30 AM
Oct 23

Trump has always had a fascination with killing people and getting away with it.

Right now, he's got Hegseth's execution squad taking on "alleged drug boats."

But that really doesn't scratch Trump's itch, because it's not his finger on the trigger. That's what he REALLY wants. And when he gets it, I wonder how America will respond.

CincyDem

(7,308 posts)
4. It won't be Kent State...it'll be 10/1/17 Las Vegas.
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 09:33 AM
Oct 23

When these guys start shooting, it won’t be targeted. It’ll be into crowds on the street and in the adrenaline fueled frenzy, we’ll be measuring victims in dozens, if not hundreds. When they’re done, all respect to Kent State victims, we’ll wish it was “only” four.

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