Lets speculate for fun cause its so hard to wait till next week. Whats the meaning of (3)?
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3 letter agencies?
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3 indictments?
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3 operations?
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FEMA zone 3?
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target #3
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Public will know soon.
Are the any limitations to use the USMC within the US? In many countries the military is only allowed in very limited situations to operate in the own country (seperation of power). Are there any limitations / requirements for the USMC to operate in the own country? Probably treason?
I think we can nail it down, cause the USMC are only allowed to operate on US soil in special situations.
Wiki:
The Posse Comitatus Act is 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. The purpose of the act – in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807 – is to limit the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States. It was passed as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction, and was subsequently updated in 1956 and 1981.
The Act only specifically applies to the United States Army and, as amended in 1956, the United States Air Force. While the Act does not explicitly mention the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps, the Department of the Navy has prescribed regulations that are generally construed to give the Act force with respect to those services as well. The Act does not apply to the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state's governor. The United States Coast Guard, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security, is not covered by the Posse Comitatus Act either, primarily because although the Coast Guard is an armed service, it also has both a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency mission.
The title of the act comes from the legal concept of posse comitatus, the authority under which a county sheriff, or other law officer, conscripts any able-bodied man to assist her or him in keeping the peace.
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
The 2007 Defense Authorization Bill
Due to the events of 9/11 and terrorist activities, Congress modified the Insurrection Act with the 2007 Defense Authorization Bill. They also changed the name of the Act to the more politically correct, "Enforcement of the Laws to Restore Public Order."
This modification gave the president far more power to use US Military Troops for things like, natural disasters, epidemics, serious public health emergencies, terrorist attacks, or other conditions, when the President determines that the authorities of the state are incapable of maintaining public order. In other words almost anything he wanted.
Thankfully the 2008 Defense Authorization Bill repealed those changes.
Presidential Authority to Use US Military Forces
Here are the current conditions the president can use to deploy US Military Troops on American soil.
(1) The President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to–
(A) restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that–
(i) domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order; and
(ii) such violence results in a condition described in paragraph (2); or
(B) suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy if such insurrection, violation, combination, or conspiracy results in a condition described in paragraph (2).
(2) A condition described in this paragraph is a condition that–
(A) so hinders the execution of the laws of a State or possession, as applicable, and of the United States within that State or possession, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State or possession are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or
(B) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152)
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Check the POTUS tweets from today. I guess it fulfills the requirements of the Defense Authorization Bill and authorises POTUS to use the USMC on US soil.
Intresting idea with Cali. If they break federal law Defense Authorization Bill could be applied to send the troops to bring back law.