{"id":1541118,"date":"2025-06-11T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1541118"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:05:00","slug":"always-ready-always-there-democrats-mobilize-against-national-guard-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/always-ready-always-there-democrats-mobilize-against-national-guard-deployment\/1541118\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Ready, Always There: Democrats Mobilize Against National Guard Deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Always Ready, Always There: Democrats Mobilize Against National Guard Deployment<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jonathan Turley,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Gov. Gavin Newsom was in his element this week. After scenes of burning cars and attacks on ICE personnel, Newsom declared that this was all \u201can illegal act, an immoral act, an unconstitutional act.\u201d<\/strong> No, he was not speaking of the attacks on law enforcement or property. He was referring to President Donald Trump\u2019s call to deploy the National Guard to protect federal officers.<\/p>\n

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Newsom is planning to challenge the deployment <\/strong>as cities like Glendale are\u00a0cancelling contracts<\/a>\u00a0to house detainees and reaffirming that local police will not assist the federal government.<\/p>\n

Trump has the authority under Section 12406 of Title 10 of the U.S. Code to deploy the National Guard if the president is \u201cunable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Administration is saying that that is precisely what is unfolding in California, where mobs attack vehicles and trap federal personnel.<\/p>\n

Most critics are challenging the deployment on policy grounds, arguing that it is an unnecessary escalation.<\/strong> However, even critics like Berkeley Law Dean Erwin have\u00a0admitted<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cUnfortunately, President Trump likely has the legal authority to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a fair debate over whether this is needed at this time, but the President is allowed to reach a different conclusion. Trump wants the violence to end now as opposed to escalating as it did in the Rodney King riots or the later riots after the George Floyd killings, causing billions in property damage and many deaths.<\/p>\n

Courts will be asked to halt the order because it did not technically go through Newsom to formally call out the National Guard.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Section 12406<\/a>\u00a0grants Trump the authority to call out the Guard and employs a mandatory term for governors, who \u201cshall\u201d issue the President\u2019s order. In the\u00a0memo<\/a>, Trump also instructed federal officials \u201cto coordinate with the Governors of the States and the National Guard Bureau.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newsom is clearly refusing to issue the orders or coordinate the deployment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even if such challenges are successful, Trump can clearly flood the zone with federal authority. Indeed, the obstruction could escalate the matter further, prompting Trump to consider using the Insurrection Act, which would allow troops to participate directly in civilian law enforcement.<\/p>\n

In 1958, President Eisenhower used the Insurrection Act to deploy troops to Arkansas to enforce the Supreme Court\u2019s orders ending racial segregation in schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Trump Administration has already claimed that these riots \u201cconstitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.\u201d In support of such a claim, the Administration could cite many of the Democratic leaders now denouncing the claim.<\/p>\n

After January 6th, liberal politicians and professors insisted that the riot was an \u201cinsurrection\u201d and, in claiming that Trump and dozens of Republicans could be\u00a0removed from ballots<\/a>\u00a0under the 14th Amendment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Liberal professors\u00a0insisted<\/a>\u00a0that Trump\u2019s use of the word \u201cfight\u201d and questioning the results of an election did qualify as an insurrection. They argued that you merely need to show \u201can assemblage of people\u201d who are \u201cresisting law\u201d and \u201cusing force or intimidation\u201d for \u201ca public purpose.\u201d The involvement of inciteful language from politicians only reinforced these claims. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

Democrats are using this order to deflect from their own escalation of the tensions for months. From Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz calling ICE officers \u201cGestapo\u201d to others calling them \u201cfascists\u201d and \u201cNazis,\u201d Democratic leaders have been ignoring objections that they are fueling the violent and criminal responses. It did not matter. It was viewed as good politics.<\/p>\n

While Newsom and figures like Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) have called these \u201cpeaceful\u201d protests, rocks, and Molotov cocktails have been thrown at police as vehicles were torched. Police had to use tear gas, \u201cflash bang\u201d grenades, and\u00a0rubber bullets to quell these \u201cpeaceful\u201d protesters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There appears little interest in deescalation on either side. For the Trump Administration, images of rioters riding in celebration around burning cars with Mexican flags are only likely to reinforce the support of the majority of Americans for the enforcement of immigration laws.<\/p>\n

For Democrats, they have gone \u201call in\u201d on opposing ICE and these enforcement operations despite support from roughly 30 percent of the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some democrats are now playing directly to the mob. A Los Angeles City Council member, Eunisses Hernandez, reportedly urged anti-law enforcement protesters to \u201cescalate\u201d their tactics against ICE officers:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThey know how quickly we mobilize, that\u2019s why they\u2019re changing tactics. Because community defense works and our resistance has slowed them down before\u2026 and if they\u2019re escalating their tactics then so are we. When they show up, we gotta show up even stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, L.A. officials are maintaining the sanctuary status of the city, barring the cooperation of local police, and calling on citizens to escalate their resistance after a weekend of violent attacks. Others have posted the locations of ICE facilities to allow better tracking of operations while cities like Glendale are closing facilities.<\/p>\n

In Washington, Jeffries has\u00a0pledged<\/a>\u00a0to unmask the identities of individual ICE officers who have been covering their faces to protect themselves and their families from growing threats.<\/p>\n

While Democrats have not succeeded in making a convincing political case for opposing immigration enforcement, they may be making a stronger case for federal deployment in increasingly hostile blue cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the author of \u201cThe Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 06\/11\/2025 – 08:05<\/span><\/p>\n

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