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Cheers, Cinzia.
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That occurred at the request of then-California Governor Pete Wilson, and President Ronald Reagan approved the deployment (in light of the Rodney King riots). You have to go back to 1965 to find a President disregarding the objections of a state's governor to the deployment.
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I think it's fair to say the rule of law does not exist in the US at the moment. That doesn't mean the legal system is dead, but does mean we can't be assured that law applies equally to all and is administered by independent judges.
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To back up: Presidents have deployed troops for purposes of quelling unrest or executing the law only 30 times in U.S. history. The Brennan Center has published a guide compiling and annotating those instances. 3/19 www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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The last time National Guard troops were federalized against a governors will was...to ensure desegregation. Guardsmen have been called out to quell large scale civic unrest, the last being 1992 LA Riots, but nothing that happened today comes at all close. www.nationalguard.mil/Portals/31/R...
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Thanks so much. Hugely appreciated.
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Never a dull moment....
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They've only charged him with transporting illegal immigrants. So.....🤔
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100%.
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Fact-based reporting.