silence7@lemmy.world to California@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoPentagon Sends 700 Marines to Los Angeles, Escalating Response to Protestswww.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up1129arrow-down11
arrow-up1128arrow-down1external-linkPentagon Sends 700 Marines to Los Angeles, Escalating Response to Protestswww.bloomberg.comsilence7@lemmy.world to California@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square9linkfedilink
minus-squareBlaster M@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoBecause part of a bill that was voted into law many years back actually had a provision to allow deploying the military on US soil
minus-squareArchangel1313@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoThat’s the Insurrection Act. The only way Trump could invoke it, would be if the protesters were armed and attacking the government. That’s the entire reason why armed protests are a very bad idea in the US.
Because part of a bill that was voted into law many years back actually had a provision to allow deploying the military on US soil
That’s the Insurrection Act. The only way Trump could invoke it, would be if the protesters were armed and attacking the government. That’s the entire reason why armed protests are a very bad idea in the US.