{"The The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law (10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255)[1] (until 2016, found at 10 US Code, Chapter 15, §§ 331–335, renumbered to 10 USC, Chapter 13, §§ 251–255) that governs the ability of the President of the United States to deploy military troops within the United States to put down lawlessness, insurrection, and rebellion. The general purpose is to limit presidential power, relying on state and local governments for initial response in the event of insurrection. Coupled with the Posse Comitatus Act, "The entire text of the Posse Comitatus Act, as amended in 1956, is as follows:18 U.S.C. § 1385 – Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus, Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. Accordingly, actions taken under the Insurrection Act, as an "Act of Congress", have always been exempt from the Posse Comitatus Act.[2][3] Presidential powers for domestic law enforcement are limited and delayed."} This act was in keeping with limiting presidential powers from overstepping their authority in forcing states to comply with their extra-democratic concept of governance.
The Insurrection Act was amended in 2007 and contains the same wording as the original act plus additional wording. {"Differences between old and new wording[edit]The original wording of the Act required the conditions as worded in Paragraph (2), above, to be met as the result of insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy.The new wording of the Act, as amended, still requires the same conditions as worded in Paragraph (2), above, but those conditions could, after the changes, also be a result of natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition and only if domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order.}
All of this to say that it would take an extraordinary set of circumstances for trump to trigger his threat to deputize the military as a civilian police force. What we have here is another example of how trump sees himself as a dictator in a democratic system that doesn't allow for it. The end of trump's presidency is the most pressing issue of our time and although we have less than 18 months before the next election I fear that it won't be in time for us to stop trump from breaking our democracy and installing himself as a king. I am not embellishing nor being conspiratorial here. The trail of evidence trump has slithered behind him is plenty enough for anyone of sound mind and body to draw the same conclusion.
The Insurrection Act was amended in 2007 and contains the same wording as the original act plus additional wording. {"Differences between old and new wording[edit]The original wording of the Act required the conditions as worded in Paragraph (2), above, to be met as the result of insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy.The new wording of the Act, as amended, still requires the same conditions as worded in Paragraph (2), above, but those conditions could, after the changes, also be a result of natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition and only if domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order.}
All of this to say that it would take an extraordinary set of circumstances for trump to trigger his threat to deputize the military as a civilian police force. What we have here is another example of how trump sees himself as a dictator in a democratic system that doesn't allow for it. The end of trump's presidency is the most pressing issue of our time and although we have less than 18 months before the next election I fear that it won't be in time for us to stop trump from breaking our democracy and installing himself as a king. I am not embellishing nor being conspiratorial here. The trail of evidence trump has slithered behind him is plenty enough for anyone of sound mind and body to draw the same conclusion.
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