Statement by Democrat Seattle Mayor Durkan and City Attorney Pete Holmes yesterday
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Mayor Jenny Durkan and City Attorney Pete Holmes Issue Statements on President Trump’s Illegal Threat To Deploy Military Forces in U.S. Cities and States
https://durkan.seattle.gov/2020/06/mayor-jenny-durkan-and-city-attorney-pete-homes-issue-statements-on-president-trumps-illegal-threat-to-deploy-military-forces-in-u-s-cities-and-states/
City Attorney Holmes issued the following statement:
“POTUS has lost his mind. He just threatened to deploy active military forces in American cities in plain, criminal violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.
“The Posse Comitatus Act states that, ‘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.’ 18 U.S.C. § 1385.
“Even if this wasn’t blatantly illegal, does Trump actually want the Nation to burn? Our City will fight any steps to use the military against the American public.”
Article in local Seattle News this morning
Presidents have leeway to use military for domestic purposes
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/presidents-have-leeway-to-use-military-for-domestic-purposes-06-02-2020
Legal experts say the president does indeed have the authority under the Insurrection Act of 1807 to dispatch the military in states that are unable to put down an insurrection or are defying federal law.
Stephen Vladeck, a national security and constitutional law expert at the University of Texas at Austin, said on Twitter that the federal government does not necessarily need a state request before using troops for domestic law enforcement, and that the Insurrection Act is open-ended in letting the president decide when circumstances merited its use.
>These people are STUPID!