Below is my column in Fox.com on the deployment of National Guard in Los Angeles. Another round of court challenges are unfolding, but the escalation is likely to continue on both sides. While the Guard’s motto is “Always Ready, Always There!,” California Democrats do not want them between rioters and federal law enforcement.
Here is the column:
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 “an illegal act, an immoral act, an unconstitutional act.” No, he was not speaking of the attacks on law enforcement or property. He was referring to President Donald Trump’s call to deploy the National Guard to protect federal officers.
Newsom is planning to challenge the deployment as cities like Glendale are cancelling contracts to house detainees and reaffirming that local police will not assist the federal government.
Trump has the authority under Section 12406 of Title 10 of the U.S. Code to deploy the National Guard if the president is “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.”
The Administration is saying that that is precisely what is unfolding in California, where mobs attack vehicles and trap federal personnel.
Most critics are challenging the deployment on policy grounds, arguing that it is an unnecessary escalation. However, even critics like Berkeley Law Dean Erwin have admitted that “Unfortunately, President Trump likely has the legal authority to do this.”
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.
Courts will be asked to halt the order because it did not technically go through Newsom to formally call out the National Guard.
Section 12406 grants Trump the authority to call out the Guard and employs a mandatory term for governors, who “shall” issue the President’s order. In the memo, Trump also instructed federal officials “to coordinate with the Governors of the States and the National Guard Bureau.”
Newsom is clearly refusing to issue the orders or coordinate the deployment.
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.
In 1958, President Eisenhower used the Insurrection Act to deploy troops to Arkansas to enforce the Supreme Court’s orders ending racial segregation in schools.
The Trump Administration has already claimed that these riots “constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.” In support of such a claim, the Administration could cite many of the Democratic leaders now denouncing the claim.
After January 6th, liberal politicians and professors insisted that the riot was an “insurrection” and, in claiming that Trump and dozens of Republicans could be removed from ballots under the 14th Amendment.
Liberal professors insisted that Trump’s use of the word “fight”and questioning the results of an election did qualify as an insurrection. They argued that you merely need to show “an assemblage of people” who are “resisting law” and “using force or intimidation” for “a public purpose.” The involvement of inciteful language from politicians only reinforced these claims. Sound familiar?
Democrats are using this order to deflect from their own escalation of the tensions for months. From Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz calling ICE officers “Gestapo” to others calling them “fascists” and “Nazis,” 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.
While Newsom and figures like Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) have called these “peaceful” protests, rocks, and Molotov cocktails have been thrown at police as vehicles were torched. Police had to use tear gas, “flash bang” grenades, and rubber bullets to quell these “peaceful” protesters.
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.
For Democrats, they have gone “all in” on opposing ICE and these enforcement operations despite support from roughly 30 percent of the public.
Some democrats are now playing directly to the mob. A Los Angeles City Council member, Eunisses Hernandez, reportedly urged anti-law enforcement protesters to “escalate” their tactics against ICE officers: “They know how quickly we mobilize, that’s why they’re changing tactics. Because community defense works and our resistance has slowed them down before… and if they’re escalating their tactics then so are we. When they show up, we gotta show up even stronger.”
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.
In Washington, Jeffries has pledged to unmask the identities of individual ICE officers who have been covering their faces to protect themselves and their families from growing threats.
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.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
CNN admits that America is with Trump on this.
https://x.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1932099350907473966
Gosh, I hope you’re not in Hawaii.
What’s going to happen when they try looting Korean stores? Or are they too smart to get shot in the face?
Yes. I so remember the last time….
This entire fiasco is nothing but political theater.
Stephen Miller has set a quota of 3,000 deportations a day.
He has threatened to start firing people if they fail to meet the quota.
Consequently, ICE is going after the low hanging fruit.
That is why they are grabbing people in the Home Depot parking lot.
The murderers, rapists, and drug traffickers are not hanging out in the Home Depot parking lot on a Saturday morning.
These people are simply family men trying to find work so they can feed their families.
They are willing to do an honest day’s hard work for LESS than an honest day’s pay.
They are willing to do the hard dirty jobs that Americans refuse to do.
They are willing to do this because it is even worse for them in their home countries.
If they were receiving all kinds of welfare payments, as the MAGA mob claims, they would not be out looking for work.
They are most definitely not the gangsters that Trump claims.
The sole purpose of this exercise is to incite enough unrest to give Trump a chance to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law.
Wrong.
Here are the violent criminals ICE agents were attacked for arresting
“Over the weekend, ICE agents arrested 118 illegal foreign nationals, including five gang members and those with criminal histories of “alien smuggling,” assault, cruelty to children, domestic violence, drug trafficking and robbery.
Among those arrested were violent men all in the country illegally, according to ICE:
Vietnamese national Cuong Chanh Phan, convicted of second-degree murder;
Philippino Rolando Veneracion-Enriquez, whose criminal history includes burglary in Ontario, Calif.; sexual penetration with a foreign object with force and assault with intent to commit rape in Pomona, Calif.;
Mexican national Lionel Sanchez-Laguna, with a criminal history in Orange Calif. of discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling and vehicle; battery on spouse or cohabitant; willful cruelty to child; driving under the influence; assault with semi-automatic firearm; and personal use of a firearm;
Mexican national Armando Ordaz whose criminal history includes sexual battery and petty theft in Los Angeles and receiving known or stolen property in Norwalk, Calif.;
Francisco Sanchez-Arguelloa whose arrests include on grand theft larceny charges and possession of a prohibited weapon;
Ecuadoran Jose Gregorio Medranda Ortiz, whose criminal history includes conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while on board a vessel in Tampa, Florida;
Mexican national Victor Mendoza-Aguilar whose criminal history in Pasadena includes a conviction for possessing unlawful paraphernalia; possessing controlled substances; assault with a deadly weapon, not firearm; obstructing a public officer;
Mexican national Delfino Aguilar-Martinez, whose criminal history includes assault with a deadly weapon with great bodily injury in Los Angeles;
Peruvian national Jose Cristobal Hernandez-Buitron, convicted of robbery;
Honduran national Jordan Mauricio Meza-Esquibel, whose criminal history includes arrests for distribution of heroin and cocaine and domestic violence;
Mexican national Jesus Alan Hernandez-Morales, whose criminal history includes conspiracy to transport an illegal alien in Las Cruces, New Mexico.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_a3e9a8dc-eebd-40c7-9d45-e5da603f6073.html?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
Not to worry. There’s no way out of California. The planes fly in circles. I don’t think compasses work because of electrical interference.
It’s been fun.
NotReallyaFarmer
And not one of those 118 arrests were made in a Home Depot parking lot on a Saturday morning.
I am not saying that ICE should not be going after the hardened criminals.
They should absolutely be hunting them down.
In fact that should be their primary focus above all other activities.
The point is that they should not be rounding up people in the Home Depot parking lot to meet some arbitrary quota set by Stephen Miller.
If they really are intending to get rid of the gangsters and criminals then they need to be looking elsewhere.
They are wasting their time chasing people in the Home Depot parking lot, when they should be out tracking down the gangsters and making even MORE arrests than the 118 you mention.
To do this they need to much more stealthy, working under cover to actually find these gangsters.
Not making big public displays rounding up people who are just trying to make a few bucks to buy food.
The only reason they are doing this is is to incite unrest so that Trump can invoke the Insurrection Act.
They are illegal. ICE going to Home Depot to arrest illegals is common sense. Some may be criminals. Only way to find out is to arrest them, run them through the system to see if they have a criminal background. Regardless, they are still illegal and need to be deported.
The rioters are the ones who escalated the situation into violence by throwing glass bottles, rocks at LEOs. Trump did not do that. Who is inciting rioting, violence, unrest is Democrats like Newsome and Bass.
Advocacy group at heart of anti-ICE protests in LA has long raised money through ActBlue
“Although a different credit-card processor is used on their own webpage, The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) is listed in ActBlue’s official directory.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/finance/advocacy-group-center-anti-ice-protests-la-has-long-raised-money-through-0?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
Wrong again.
What I Saw During an ICE Operation
“Their first target was a 28-year-old Venezuelan man, an alleged member of Tren de Aragua,”
“The alleged Tren de Aragua member had a routine. Each morning, he let out a small, white dog from a brick duplex at 5133 South Dakota Avenue to use the bathroom before leaving for work as a contractor in a red Toyota Tundra truck at around 6:05 a.m., based on surveillance by a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agent.
https://www.thefp.com/p/what-i-saw-during-an-ice-operation
DJT is right about the Panama canal too. Station troops in Central America. This man Bukele can’t last forever. He’s an Arab?
No, you idiot, it’s called beating around the bushes. See what flew out? Right there…
More libs… shocking… I know
That bridge was burned , anon, with the heinous murders, the unending riots, looting , theft until business shuttered. That bridge shuttered. When the US fell under o-buma the world collapsed. In seeing this it is possible to assess the actual strength and leadership of the United States. It’s a lesson well learned.
So where would YOU start looking for the hardened criminals? Starbucks? I personally would start looking at a place with a concentration of people with numerous similar characteristics, in this case, like a Home Depot. Some are going to rat on the bad guys in order to save themselves.
45 murderers rapists and pedophiles were arrested
STFU the Americans did the heavy lifting for 250 years you fool. What about you, a few years? Don’t settle for LESS. Report it. Immigration laws are for everyone’s safety and definitely the legal immigrant.
What the he// is the logic behind illegal migration? Tell me. You’re such BS. Why don’t east Indian immigrants get in the streets and throw molotov cocktails.
I fully expect Trump and Republicans to TALK alot about using the insurrection act.
I do NOT expect them to do so unless things get far worse.
A couple of ICE agents killed might do that.
Trump politically needs to appear to respond forcefully.
At the same time it is politically in Trump’s interest for left wing nuts to respond with violence.
And left wing nuts are playing into his hands.
This is a MAJOR issue and one that police and politicans all over the country are watching.
The MESSAGE – that those of you on the left are missing, is cooprate with ICE and things can remain peaceful.
BTW Millers target is 5000 arrests a day – not 3000 That is over 1.5M deportations a year.
Currently the targets are first and foremost criminals.
But absolutely ICE is picking of other low hanging fruit.
Trump and Homan are very effectively managing the politics.
They WANT stories of MS13 gang members like Garcia in the news.
They WANT these clashes with violent protextors over the deportation of violent friminals and they want that now.
Trump has 4 years to deport 15-21M people. Most of those are NOT violent gang members.
They WANT the protests nd fights and popular and legal victories NOW over the worst of the worst.
Democrats would have been wise to “keep their powder dry and wait until later for the better cases – the REAL “maryland man”
the mothers being separated from children.
Instead they are fighting the wrong fights and the courts and people will be beyond all this by the time ICE is past mostly criminals.
I support our Prez. Great job sir.
“The murderers, rapists, and drug traffickers are not hanging out in the Home Depot parking lot on a Saturday morning.”
Some are. But that does not matter much.
ICE is focussed on violent criminals. It is NOT ignoring other illegals. If they get one violent criminal at homedepot and 10 non-violent illegal aliens – ICE will be happy.
“These people are simply family men trying to find work so they can feed their families.”
True, and often exploited by cartels. Garcia was trying to feed his family by transporting illegals and gang members arround.
Irdinary americans are trying to feed their families too.
“They are willing to do an honest day’s hard work for LESS than an honest day’s pay.”
Nearly everyone in the world – especially outside the left seeks to do an honest days work.
There is no such thing as an honest days pay. YOU get to decide how much you want paid, and your employer gets to decide what they will pay.
The more risk to the employer the lower the pay.
“They are willing to do the hard dirty jobs that Americans refuse to do.”
Possibly – so what ?
“They are willing to do this because it is even worse for them in their home countries.”
Correct. Americans are not responsible for the mess that the left worldwide has made of countries arround the world.
regardless it is bad in relative terms for working class americans too.
“If they were receiving all kinds of welfare payments, as the MAGA mob claims, they would not be out looking for work.”
So ?
“They are most definitely not the gangsters that Trump claims.”
Some are. Lok at the news – the Left has been forced to make people like Garcia the face of illegal immigration,
Because they do not have enough women being separated from children.
“The sole purpose of this exercise is to incite enough unrest to give Trump a chance to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law.”
No the purpose it to deport illegals as promised.
The misconduct of those on the left is just a bonus.
“ These people are simply family men trying to find work so they can feed their families.”
True, and often exploited by cartels. Garcia was trying to feed his family by transporting illegals and gang members arround.”
None of that has been shown to be true. Slandering Garcia as a gang member without definitive proof only serves to justify the overreach of the government.
Trump wants violence and he wants it to justi harsher responses and an excuse to use the military.
Do not think that all those rioters are leftists. Many are also Trump voters who have realized they were duped. This will not bode well for Republicans in the midterms.
AND if you’re right, “…giving Trump a chance to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law”—who are the actual, on-the-ground factions that need to stand down? Get it straight. Conservatives/centrists are only talking: extreme-leftist s and illegals are DOing the riots. Who should you really be warning?
The particular “immigrants” being sought and deported are not merely hard workers doing dirty jobs; they are indeed anti-Americans recruiting and running street gangs, so you’re conflating groups, which is always germane to pushing fallacies, disinformation, and inciting the emotional-and-ignorant to violence….
Biden-the-Brainless and his bald henchman Mayorkas-the-mutineer concocted this problem with their open borders conspiracy, the fallout of which gives people like you the fodder you need for insurrection with the violent and brain-dead to feed it.
Dianna Bec,
Well said and spot on!! Especially about the the mess Biden-the-Brainless and Mayorkas-the-mutineer created at the border.
And thanks for the laugh!
Well said. Think of the bad name and embarrassment of Mexican American legal immigrants. These lawless people have done their tribe harm.
Illegals can go back, get passports, visas and return to their jobs?
You’re right about low hanging fruit, human nature being what it is. You’re wrong about illegals not looking for work if they are receiving benefits as you can’t send the benefits back to your home country but you can send the cash payments you get for day work.
What does it take for these Democrat leaders to admit that an insurrection is occurring? I could possibly answer my own question by saying, “Insurrections only happen when it’s not Democrat loyalists committing the actions,” because that’s the only conclusion they might say that might make sense to me.
If the Dems want a “hot” civil war, I say, bring it!
OUr system is so hopelessly broken, at this point, maybe it’s the only way to bring us back to sanity as a nation.
I’d prefer an Article V Convention of States, but unless a few more state legislatures get off their fat, lazy asses, war might be the only logical alternative.
When raw survival is paramount, all the other sillinesss we’ve succumbed to in this nation matters not a hill of beans — not transgenderism, LGBTQ rights, DEI, ESG, et al.
I’m not against immigration and immigrants, but I’d much prefer it be done sensibly, legally, etc. Remember, America’s one giant family, and our nation is our house. In the same way the average citizen won’t tolerate unauthorized invasion of their private homes, and will defend their castle, even risking life and limb, so our nation has that right and duty to do so.
If America doesn’t protect and defend herself, we’ll, eventually, not be able to protect and defend anyone else — simple as that.
I just wish folks on both sides would understand, recognize and support this.
I dunno, just my two cent’s worth, for whatever it’s worth.
OUr system is so hopelessly broken, at this point, maybe it’s the only way to bring us back to sanity as a nation.
Maybe for the sake of climate change?
Controlled fires could actually save forests and fight climate change
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/controlled-fires-could-actually-save-forests-and-fight-climate-change/
Convention is a ruse. All America needs is for the judicial branch to enforce the Constitution and Bill of Rights, including retroactively to correct that unconstitutional Lincoln despotism and all the resultant communism.
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“…courts…must…declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
“…men…do…what their powers do not authorize, [and] what they forbid.”
“[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”
– Alexander Hamilton
And, of course, we know that America went off the Constitution in 1860.
It’s been all downhill ever since, as America set off on a “Progressive” journey to its current communist state.
Karen Bass’ legacy will be a much diminished city.
Newsom’s legacy will be a much diminished state.
Calif already seceded. Keep sending that rail money. 😏
If Newscum had a lick of sense, he would have built a pipeline to Great Bear Lake, Canada, and done his job to obtain and provide water to Californians rather than invite Mexicans in to wantonly use more and more of it and restrict the use of water by actual, real Californians. California doesn’t need more rail money or Mexicans; California needs more water.
That’s the truth. Nothing is grown in calif anymore. 😂. There’s no farmwork , that’s yesterday long ago.
Drive north on I-5 and after awhile, before Sacramento, you will pass miles and miles of dead orchard trees. Desiccated. Destroyed by government policy rather than pests or true lack of water. The state government in California is the enemy of prosperity and the future.
But I am not sure this would happen if California elections were truly fair and excluded dead people, felons, nonresidents, illegal aliens and rigged ballot counting.
There’s only 1 law—> loot and run.
All done here in the US.
Wait. That was Abraham Lincoln’s law.
Nothing says “peaceful protests” like terrorists standing on burning cars waving the Mexican flag. It appears that the California democrats simply love their hardened criminal foreigners.
They attacked federal officers, damaged federal property and have impeded the functions of government and transportation (blocking highways). How is this not insurrection?
Federal Law supersedes state law and they will lose. More businesses and California taxpayers will leave. Tourism will be dealt a blow and they will miss out on government contracts.
How can any fair minded citizen not look at this and shake their head?
There should be mass arrests of anyone showing any sign of violence or noncompliance.
Dear Prof Turley,
Wow. I can see by your coat my friend, you’re on the ‘other side’! The immigrants, for the most part, don’t amount to a hill of beans .. . and they pick the beans.
Careful what you wish for .. . don’t think His Majesty and Absolute Ruler Lord Trump has the mandate He thinks He does, with all due deference to the Executive.
Would have thought Nixon’s use of the National Guard at Kent State would have been a more pertinent and timelier example of Unitary Executive Authority? The National Guard was definitely ‘Always ready and Always there’ there.
The Marine Corp’s motto is ‘semper fi’ (always faithful) and they certainly don’t fu*k around like the NG.
No mention of The Posse Comitatus Act, a “United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes that limits the powers of the federal government in the use of federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States. Congress passed the Act as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction and updated it in 1956, 1981 and 2021.” ?
*4 dead in Ohio .. .
The Posse Comitatus Act nullified the Constitution and amended it when it usurped and exercised the executive power that was vested solely and exclusively in the president by Article 2, Section 1.
The Posse Comitatus Act is unconstitutional.
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Article 2, Section 1
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
I’m willing to give unto Ceasar that which belongs to Ceasar .. . and not a penny more.
Trump is no Ceasar.
*I like the beans picked fresh and my tacos hot.
you were corrected yesterday about your misunderstanding of PCA.
Saying that don’t make it so,
*see also ‘fantasies’
clown, there was an official attachment. did you read it?
Yawn
Reaching for Kent State . . . the lazy left-wing go-to, and so boringly predictable. Yawn. Has nothing at all to do with today’s situation.
I believe Ohio Governor Rhodes called in the National Guard, not President Nixon.
Try JFK , national guard, civil rights, Georgia–fool.
Of course it’s legal. Kent state isn’t the streets with molotov. How old are you? 12?
You call Professor Turley a turn-coat, and you’re unwisely firing about like a loose cannon, with your own turncoat ideology!
The “immigrants” being sought and deported are not picking beans, but recruiting and running street gangs, so you’re conflating groups, which is always germane to pushing fallacies, disinformation, and inciting the ignorant to violence….his majesty Biden-the-Brainless and his henchman Mayorkas-the-bald-mutineer concocted this conspiracy that gives people like you the fodder you need for insurrection with the violent and brain-dead to populate it.
By the way, they shot WHITE kids at Kent State. No one wants to shoot Mexicans, rudely flying their beloved country’s flag in the streets—just to work you manic OLD HIPPIES into a greater frenzy.
Do these guys pick beans?
Here are the violent criminals ICE agents were attacked for arresting
“Over the weekend, ICE agents arrested 118 illegal foreign nationals, including five gang members and those with criminal histories of “alien smuggling,” assault, cruelty to children, domestic violence, drug trafficking and robbery.
Among those arrested were violent men all in the country illegally, according to ICE:
Vietnamese national Cuong Chanh Phan, convicted of second-degree murder;
Philippino Rolando Veneracion-Enriquez, whose criminal history includes burglary in Ontario, Calif.; sexual penetration with a foreign object with force and assault with intent to commit rape in Pomona, Calif.;
Mexican national Lionel Sanchez-Laguna, with a criminal history in Orange Calif. of discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling and vehicle; battery on spouse or cohabitant; willful cruelty to child; driving under the influence; assault with semi-automatic firearm; and personal use of a firearm;
Mexican national Armando Ordaz whose criminal history includes sexual battery and petty theft in Los Angeles and receiving known or stolen property in Norwalk, Calif.;
Francisco Sanchez-Arguelloa whose arrests include on grand theft larceny charges and possession of a prohibited weapon;
Ecuadoran Jose Gregorio Medranda Ortiz, whose criminal history includes conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while on board a vessel in Tampa, Florida;
Mexican national Victor Mendoza-Aguilar whose criminal history in Pasadena includes a conviction for possessing unlawful paraphernalia; possessing controlled substances; assault with a deadly weapon, not firearm; obstructing a public officer;
Mexican national Delfino Aguilar-Martinez, whose criminal history includes assault with a deadly weapon with great bodily injury in Los Angeles;
Peruvian national Jose Cristobal Hernandez-Buitron, convicted of robbery;
Honduran national Jordan Mauricio Meza-Esquibel, whose criminal history includes arrests for distribution of heroin and cocaine and domestic violence;
Mexican national Jesus Alan Hernandez-Morales, whose criminal history includes conspiracy to transport an illegal alien in Las Cruces, New Mexico.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_a3e9a8dc-eebd-40c7-9d45-e5da603f6073.html?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
Do you know the whole or just the lib news side? Bet not
The below post was intended to be posted under this topic. I repeat and incorporate my below apologies.
I need some collective brains. Would others like to join me in applying for a patent to dislocate California from the contiguous U.S.?
If you will, create this image in your mind:
First we must accelerate movement of the San Andreas Fault, then rotate/swing the separated longitudinal terracotta strip formerly known as California-at a counterclockwise-approximately-180-190-degree-southward angle- to then reattach to the western coast of Mexico? Picture it?
From there, we can then steal from our former course instructor Joe Biden (taught Plagiarism 101) a “Build Back” plan that would build the soil back up (land reclamation plan) by stealing from China (as they do from us) technical construction plans that helped them create that beautiful new land in the South China Sea?
Then we can steal embryos, sperm banks, etc. from the massive Trans community in California (unused/wasted because of lack of procreative habits), and genetically manipulate them into heterosexual/cis healthy Breeders, and voila! Custom made California! A Brave New World! We go from 1984 to survive 8647, then on to 2028!
Actionable theft?
All is fair in love and deMOCKracy.
HA, just having a little fun on this rainy stormy day. Electricity out. I tripped over my little springer spaniel puppy, hit and split my lip open on the kitchen counter, -blamed Trump- (I think they misspelled TACO, you’re supposed to blame it on the TANGO-BOSSA NOVA) , and now, effete, can start over with my day. Thanks for indulging me. Apologies to this site for taking up space on this but a dangerous mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Lin,
This is a piece of cake. The proof is in the pudding. Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo can do whatever. Que Sera, Sera. Whatever Will Be, Will Be.
Let Mexico annex California.
Thanks! That’s an even better plan! Much simpler!
Great idea. Cede to Mx most of the western coast of the US with its ports and access to the Pacific Ocean.
Nothing lost. wasn’t land reclamation for new coastline proposed? fresher, cleaner, new modern ports with less polution?
Lin, no physical land alteration would be necessary under the plan that I predict will be executed. I believe in the future a new land called USGS (the United States of George Soros) will secede and become its own nation. We get a 50-mile strip at the southern end of California which includes the Port of San Diego. The rest of the west coast west of the Central Valley in California and west of the Cascade Mountain Range in Oregon and Washington State go to USGS. USGS also gets a 30-mile wide strip of land along the border with Canada that reaches down at strategic points to scoop in cities like Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chicago, and Detroit. As that strip proceeds east it widens to include New England. The rest of the nation stays with us. It should be an amicable divorce. Each side gets self-determination without being ruled by the other side every other four years. What do you think?
OldManFromKS,
If the failed state of CA’s EV mandate for trucking stays in place, the price of anything and everything coming from CA ports will skyrocket. The infrastructure to support that many EV trucks is not there. The cost of a EV truck is twice that of a diesel truck. The range of a EV truck is less. The payload a EV truck can transport is less. The charging time is somewhere between 8 to 12 hours. Several trucking companies have stated they EV trucks make no business sense. The failed state of CA also has a mandate diesel trucks will not be allowed to operate within CA. Other companies said they will drop the trailer off at the state line and someone else with a EV truck will have to pick up the load and finish the delivery.
So then CA will be committing economic suicide?
OldManFromKS,
They have been for quite awhile. Companies leaving the failed state of CA. Mass exodus of people for better states like TX and FL. Meanwhile, Newsome tries to spin it by talking about all the people who are moving in. What he fails to mention is those who are moving to the failed state of CA, are illegals. The people who are leaving are the middle class.
“those who are moving to the failed state of CA, are illegals”
Probably recently supplemented by laid off Federal employees looking for jobs that pay well in return for little or no productive work.
It is correct that the only thing keeping California’s population from doing a completely negative growth pattern right now is the influx of illegal immigrants. It is especially striking that, at least to the advent of the Biden Administration, at least 25% of all the illegal immigrants in the country were in California. Lose them and California loses a big chunk of its electoral votes. No wonder Gruesome wants to stop ICE.
ello NotSoOld: I burst out laughing at your proposal. Yet I think it may be a good idea. So far I have been able to develop a rough draft of evening-out and realigning the Washington-British Columbia border and the Seattle area. (My first drawing focusing on security).
Then I tried to draw the whole world to see how the west coast might look.
Here is my draft drawing.
https://www.pacha-cartographe.fr/le-blog-du-cartographe/cartographies-enfants-barbara-petchenik-2017/
https://www.pacha-cartographe.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Concours-Barbara-Petchenik-2017-%E2%80%93-Laur%C3%A9at-2.jpg
(go down to second image past opening blue page of boy’s face.)
That appendage sticking out on the upper left coast of North America is Formerly Known as California as it starts to separate.
can you open it?
Thanks for helping me and making me laugh.
https://allmapslibrary.blogspot.com/2018/01/maps-drawn-by-children.html
p.s. that’s me in the middle of North America, with my hair pulled back. I am told that I am very photogenic.
“a rough draft of evening-out and realigning the Washington-British Columbia border and the Seattle area. ”
My rough proposal is to trade the northern half of California and western Oregon and Washington State to Canada, along with parts or all of Wisconsin and Minnesota, in exchange for Alberta. The southern half of Californication would be granted to Mexico, along with contiguous portions of Arizona and New Mexico. Hawaii we can just cast loose (or sell to Japan, that would be a touch ironic).
“EV truck…”
NTM the impact of lithium battery fires in those trucks. A single passenger EV that is crashed or otherwise disabled in some way to start a battery fire can completely block an interstate highway if that incident occurs at the wrong spot. What would the effect be of a truck with 12-20x the battery capacity in that same situation? NTM that EV mandates on trucking companies will drastically increase costs, which will adversely affect profitability (given that not all of those costs can be passed on to customers). You know damned well that will result in neglect of maintenance and safety issues to cut costs elsewhere, which will exacerbate the problem.
Where are the Leaders of the Counter Revolutionaries:
Where is AOC and the rest of ‘The Squad’?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, NY-14
Ilhan Omar, MN-5
Ayanna Pressley, MA-7
Rashida Tlaib, MI-12
Greg Casar, TX-35
Summer Lee, PA-12
Delia Ramirez, IL-3
Where in the World is Senator Adam Schiff?
Where in the World is Senator Alex Padilla?
Where in the World are the US Representatives from California?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_California
Where in the World are the California State Senate and Assembly Representatives?
Mums-the-Word, This to shall pass. Nothing to see here, move along….
They are all Counter Revolutionaries whom want the: Mara Salvatrucha (a.k.a.: MS-13 | U.S. Origin L.A.) and the Tren de Aragua (Venezuelan Gang), as well as six Mexican criminal groups: the Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the Northeast Cartel, the Gulf Cartel, the United Cartels, and the Michoacán Family, here in the United States to better your Neighborhoods.
“Lets keep the Gutters of the Ghetto in the Ghetto – We like it that way – Vote for Democrats!”
-We like Keeping you that Way-
The Democrats are a lost Cause and Enemy of the United States Constitution 🇺🇲
🐀 You can smell the Rats 🐀
– Barack, Hillary, and Joe –
This is a war for apportionment and electoral college power. The quickest way to deport every illegal alien in this country would be a constitutional amendment that would reduce representation in Congress and electoral power due to illegal immigrant populations vis-à-vis give them gains.
Good point. Congress is where the huge grift is possible. It’s in the trillions. Greed. Extreme greed.
why do Democrats FUND Terrorism of their Own People?
🤔 money? Lots and lots…motherlode
And, the memes are not far behind.
Gavin Newsome posing for a picture:
https://x.com/xerias_x/status/1931630528542687509
Trump taking care of business (language warning):
https://x.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1931752877116002504
OldManFromKS,
Awesome!
2 Good one’s from OldManFromKS!!! Keep them coming!!!
Do we really need to say any more words? Our DNC is part of a globalist regime, many are lifelong, card carrying Marxists, and it will not fly in a free, Constitutional Republic, particularly one with a second amendment. Anyone still in doubt is in that 16% that still think dem leadership is on point and thinks MSNBC is the ‘free press’.
This would be hysterically absurd if real hurt and damage weren’t being done – like r*tarded children playing ‘grownup’, replete with the inevitable temper tantrums, meltdowns, cursing, and throwing things. I very much doubt our dems could ever honestly (the honestly is important, you know they will continue to at least attempt to cheat) win another election ever again outside of their progressive enclaves. Or should I call them progressive ‘cloisters’ at this point? Progressive daycare, maybe? 🤷🏻♂️
They are all communists.
Every last aspect, facet, degree, and amount of communism is utterly unconstitutional—read carefully Article 1, Section 8, and the absolute 5th Amendment right to private property.
They are “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” into communism.
They are conquering the United States of America, and sympathizers and milquetoasts like you are allowing them to.
time to Ban Public Unions…a MAJOR organizer of Terrorists!
Unions are illegal criminal organizations whose negotiating tactics and bargaining points are breach of contract, failure to appear for work, criminal trespass, property damage, vandalism, intimidation, harassment, bodily injury, etc. Collective bargaining is a fraud and ruse with the union acting as an invalid and unnecessary middleman for employees.
I believe it is time for Trump to have a fireside chat with the nation to explain that ICE is attempting to remove illegal alien criminals, and the Democrats view this unfair. Otherwise, the Democrats and the Main Stream Media with totally distort the matters.
So, negotiate with the global communists who are invading and seizing America?
I agree 100%. Now is the time for an Oval Office speech in prime time to let the few idiots that only watch the MSM know what is happening in the real world.
So do I. The Oval Office needs to Square Up. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/square%20up%20to
Good, gdonaldallen.
gdonaldallen
Do you mean those illegal aliens, murderers, rapists, and drug traffickers who hang out at Home Depot on a Saturday looking for work so they can feed their families.
The people that Trump and the MAGA mob are constantly whining about are not to be found in the Home Depot parking lot.
Really? Personal anecdote: bought 1 room of carpet and installation at home depot. After done an omega watch was missing from the room and I had actually purchased 2 rooms of carpet or a double order was charged. I had purchased carpet for someone else as listed on recept. They refunded the cost of overcharge but said too bad about watch. The watch was a gift from my past btw , sentimental.
Yeah, crooks hang out there, rubester, and never went back.
If you bought carpet and installation at Home Depot, the installer was a contractor who does business with Home Depot. Home Depot only sells carpet. They do not install.
The installer was absolutely NOT one of the day laborers hanging out in the parking lot.
You may have noticed that the installer showed up in his own truck, possibly with his name on the side, and all his own tools. I bet he also spoke perfect English. The day laborers don’t have trucks and tools. If they did, they wouldn’t be hanging out in the parking lot.
Carpet installation is a trade that has to be learned if it is to be done properly.
If the installer stole items from you, then you should go to Home Depot and complain.
They will make you whole and stop doing business with the contractor.
I suspect you already know this, and are simply being disingenuous to make a point.
Either that or you are straight out lying.
Nope, home depot hired him as the installer. I paid through home depot. But thanks for your help.
Never go back again. I wasn’t born yesterday.
If you paid for your installation through Home Depot, then you used one of their contractors.
They only deal with licensed, bonded independent contractors.
https://www.homedepot.com/services/c/home-systems-and-interiors/1dcd27833
You may have had items stolen, but I can absolutely guarantee you that the installer was not a day laborer. They did not go out into the parking lot to find someone.
As I said, but you did not answer, I am sure the installer arrived in his own truck with a name on the side and his own tools.
Already went to home depot. They said too bad and did nothing.
You’re an insulting person suggesting I lie but using the wrong word.
Don’t talk to me. Thanks in advance.
You aren’t an American at all. In prison maybe trolling?
“the installer was a contractor who does business with Home Depot. ”
Home Despot is rife with contractors who dominate pretty much all of the big ticket departments, including (but not limited to) large appliances and kitchen cabinetry. So effing what? Those entities are retained by HD, which does an excellent job of making the experience appear to be seamless from the customer POV, which, for all practical purposes (including the one under discussion) negates the distinction.
Here are the violent criminals ICE agents were attacked for arresting
“Over the weekend, ICE agents arrested 118 illegal foreign nationals, including five gang members and those with criminal histories of “alien smuggling,” assault, cruelty to children, domestic violence, drug trafficking and robbery.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_a3e9a8dc-eebd-40c7-9d45-e5da603f6073.html?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
“Among those arrested were violent men all in the country illegally, according to ICE:
Vietnamese national Cuong Chanh Phan, convicted of second-degree murder;
Philippino Rolando Veneracion-Enriquez, whose criminal history includes burglary in Ontario, Calif.; sexual penetration with a foreign object with force and assault with intent to commit rape in Pomona, Calif.;
Mexican national Lionel Sanchez-Laguna, with a criminal history in Orange Calif. of discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling and vehicle; battery on spouse or cohabitant; willful cruelty to child; driving under the influence; assault with semi-automatic firearm; and personal use of a firearm;
Mexican national Armando Ordaz whose criminal history includes sexual battery and petty theft in Los Angeles and receiving known or stolen property in Norwalk, Calif.;
Francisco Sanchez-Arguelloa whose arrests include on grand theft larceny charges and possession of a prohibited weapon;
Ecuadoran Jose Gregorio Medranda Ortiz, whose criminal history includes conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while on board a vessel in Tampa, Florida;
Mexican national Victor Mendoza-Aguilar whose criminal history in Pasadena includes a conviction for possessing unlawful paraphernalia; possessing controlled substances; assault with a deadly weapon, not firearm; obstructing a public officer;
Mexican national Delfino Aguilar-Martinez, whose criminal history includes assault with a deadly weapon with great bodily injury in Los Angeles;
Peruvian national Jose Cristobal Hernandez-Buitron, convicted of robbery;
Honduran national Jordan Mauricio Meza-Esquibel, whose criminal history includes arrests for distribution of heroin and cocaine and domestic violence;
Mexican national Jesus Alan Hernandez-Morales, whose criminal history includes conspiracy to transport an illegal alien in Las Cruces, New Mexico.”
If only this were true.
ICE is detaining US citizens, too.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-citizen-detained-ice-immigration-florida-rcna201800
Right-wing media is not covering ICE’s illegal detentions, however, so it is not your fault that you are not aware of their increasingly egregious abuses of power. I searched Fox News for the name “Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez” to confirm, and unsurprisingly, there were 0 hits:
https://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search#q=Juan%20Carlos%20Lopez-Gomez
@Anonymous
That’s because it isn’t true, or at best, badly misrepresented. Enjoy your pay, you aren’t convincing anyone. 😂 Really: nobody with more than two brain cells believes anything coming out of the MSM at this point.
What isn’t true – that ICE detained an US citizen? Do you have any evidence to back up that Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez was in fact not detained by ICE?
Or are you just making stuff up?
^^^gigi again.
Better that 10 gulty go free than one innocent is imprisoned.
That quote does NOT say better that 3M guilty go free than one innocent is imprisoned.
Law enforcement is not perfect. Not under Republicans, not under democrats.
The question is what degree of error will we tolerate.
My children are Asian. I advise both of them to keep their passport cards with them at all times.
Further they should have copies on their phones and copies in their car.
They should have as many ways as possible to prove they are citizens.
They are not obligated to do these things. But being prepared decreases the odds of spending a night in detention.
ICE is not the only way someone can find themselves improperly detained by government.
Mistakes are occasionally made.
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
– Barack Hussein “Barry ‘I-Have-A-Statue-In-Jakarta’ Soetoro” Obama
Insurrectionhttps://x.com/Shawn_Farash/status/1931561299395190949
Turley is being deliberately disingenuous and deliberately distorting facts.
On January 6 Trump said that he wanted to activate the National Guard, but that he was prevented from doing so by Nancy Pelosi. He made it clear that his request was vetoed by Pelosi.
As Turley notes, the activation of the Guard REQUIRES the consent of the governor. However he considers this a “technicality”. (Interesting that a law professor believes that federal law is just a “technicality” when it is convenient to do so)
However, back to my point.
There is no governor in DC. The DC National Guard reports directly to the President and is under his sole command. He has complete authority to activate the Guard in DC by HIMSELF.
And yet he claimed that Nancy Pelosi vetoed his order for activation.
Obviously he was lying about his desire to activate the DC Guard.
Now in California, he is taking it upon himself to unilaterally activate the Guard. The law requires the consent of the Governor. Not only has Newsom refused to give consent, he has actively opposed the activation. Authority to activate the Guard always runs through the governor.
So Trump and Turley both seem to take the position that Trump can falsely deny that has sole command of the DC Guard and that his authority is subject to veto by the House Speaker, while simultaneously asserting sole command of the Guard in a state where he really can be vetoed by the governor.
The hypocrisy is stunning !!!!!!!!
Have you never read Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution, which declares the president null, void, and powerless?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Article 2, Section 1
The executive Power shall be vested in a JURISTOCRACY of the United States of America.
Anonymous,
I don’t think this is an accurate take. See the discussion from a real legal blog – Just Security – as opposed to Turley’s increasingly MAGA-first political blog.
https://www.justsecurity.org/91862/biden-can-but-shouldnt-federalize-the-texas-national-guard/
The provision provides that “Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States,” but this is better understood as a purely administrative provision than it is as giving a substantive veto to the governor. (Imagine a governor who was thwarting the enforcement of federal civil rights laws, and how Congress would not have wanted to empower the governor to resist such federalization.)
As mentioned on another excellent legal blog – Steve Vladeck’s One First – the Trump admin’s extreme rhetoric does not match its much more restrained actions here. The provision under which Trump federalized the National Guard – 10 USC 12406 – provides no additional substantive authority that the federal government did not already possess. There’s nothing these troops can do that ICE officers could not do themselves. Also, they are not authorized to conduct their own immigration raids; make their own immigration arrests; or otherwise to do anything other than to “ensure the protection and safety of Federal personnel and property.”
That being said, the problem with Trump’s order is that these troops will simply have the reverse of their purportedly intended effect. Installing the troops will fan the flames of discontent – as has indeed been the case since they have arrived – which will make the situation much worse. This of course is likely the real desired effect – so that Trump may justify invocation of the Insurrection Act.
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/156-federalizing-the-california-national
FYI, One First is a much better place to look if you want a real discussion of legal issues. Think Res Ipsa pre-Trump.
Your point that the statute does not actually grant veto power to the governors, is well taken.
I am not a lawyer.
However, the point I am really trying to make is that Trump clearly lied about Nancy Pelosi preventing him from activating the DC Guard.
He said that Pelosi vetoed his order.
He was unequivocally lying, especially given that he has sole command of the DC Guard.
Just Security is NOT a legal blog, but heavy on some legalese contributors.
“Overall, we rate Just Security Left-Center Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that moderately favor the left.” https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/just-security/
“There’s nothing these troops can do that ICE officers could not do themselves.”
Really?
20 men with guns cannot do more than can 10 men with guns?
aMAZing that georgie and gigi have both gone underground as anonymice today.
The president has the authority to federalize the guard.
But the statute requires the President to act through an order from the governor, as Turley correctly states.
The President can authorize activation, but the statute requires that the governor actually issue the order.
However, being the legal hack that he is, Turley seems to think that this is a just a technicality.
“But the statute requires the President to act through an order from the governor, as Turley correctly states.”
That’s false. And Turley never agreed with your false statement.
“The law requires the consent of the Governor.”
That is false.
Under certain conditions, the Constitution give a president unilateral authority to deploy the NG. Once that presidential authority is exercised, a governor has no choice but to comply.
Sam
The statute says the following:
” the President may call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those laws. Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States”
The statute specifically says that if the President wishes to activate the Guard, then he SHALL
issue the order through the governor.
This clearly constrains the President from issuing a direct order.
It dictates the procedure through which the President can activate the Guard.
There is nothing in the statute to REQUIRE the governor to issue such an order.
The statute simply constrains the President from acting directly.
Newsom has already filed suit to block Trump’s order based on this statute.
Your claim that the Constitution gives the president unilateral authority to activate the Guard is wrong.
The Constitution speaks broadly about state militias, and activation by the federal government under certain circumstances.
However, the Constitution says that such federal activation can only be done by Congress. There is no mention of granting such authority to the President.
Subsequent legislation by Congress over the years has delegated limited powers of activation to the President but only to the extent that he must act through the governors.
There is no Constitutional or statutory authorization for the President to act unilaterally.
“. . . then he SHALL issue the order through the governor.”
Which is a world of difference from the original (false) claim: that a president must have the consent of a governor. But, then, you knew that. And are intentionally altering the original claim.
And I meant 10 U.S. Code not the Constitution.