Washington – Washington – AFP – The latest attempt by President Donald Trump The army deployed on American soil On the local opposition raises a A new struggle with the rulers of the blue state This is now in the courts, while Trump is envisioning a country where armed soldiers patrol in the streets of the United States.
Trump has already done I pushed the traditional borders Through the use of the National Guard locally and depicting a strong role for the American army in targeting illegal immigration and crime in American cities.
His attempt to deploy members of the National Guard in California in the state of Oregon and the Texas Guard in Illinois is a The expanded use of the presidential authority. The following steps in Laws filed by the countries led by Democrats It is likely to address important issues related to the constitutional and federal law, the separation of powers – and the creation of a A possible collision between the courts Trump’s aggressive use of the National Guard.
At a meeting of senior military commanders last week, Trump called for this Using American cities as a training field For forces and warned against “invasion from the inside”. But for his critics, Trump’s use of the National Guard is up to a frightening use of force against Americans.
“What will happen when the president loses in court?” Alex Ranrt, a constitutional law expert at Cardoso Law College in New York City, said. “Will it use it as an excuse to act in a more authoritarian way?”
The armed forces of guns in the American streets are one of the clearest manifestations of this Trump’s attempt to expand his presidential powersWith the deployment of forces already in Los Angeles and Washington, DC
Usually the control of the National Guard of the state is the responsibility of the ruler, unless the units are Federalism – as it was in California Amid governor’s objections. Otherwise, it is up to the ruler to decide to publish the guards or send them to other states to help natural disasters. In the capital, Trump leads the Revolutionary Guards same.
Trump says the local authorities have failed to protect societies and hit many democratic cities as examples. that it Portland described it as “war destroyed” And “war zone” “burns” and is similar to “living in hell.”
However, nearly 150 years Boss Commatos Act It limits the role the military establishment plays in imposing local laws, which reflects America’s firm belief that the law imposing must remain in the hands of civilians.
On Monday, Trump was asked about another law, which is the rebellion law, so he said he would be ready to activate it if necessary. It allows the president to send military forces in active service to states that are unable to extinguish the rebellion or that challenge federal law.
“If you have to activate it – I will do that,” Trump said. “If people are killed, the courts are holding us, or if the conservatives or mayors are holding us.” He added, “We have to make sure that our cities are safe.”
White House press secretary, Caroline Levitt, said earlier that Trump wanted to make American cities safer.
“You formulate this as follows: the president wants to seize American cities in the army,” Levitte told reporters on Monday. He added: “The president wants to help these local leaders who were completely ineffective in securing their cities.”
US officials say that decisions to send federal forces from Texas and California to other states are taken at the highest levels in the Trump administration, bypassing the official Pentagon policy that are usually part of the deployment of forces.
An official said that although this dynamic has not heard before, it is usually used in cases such as natural disasters where the forces need to go out quickly before orders and official licenses. All officials spoke on the condition that their identity was not disclosed to discuss the internal situation.
One result is that Rulers like Javin Newsum from California and JP Pritzker from IllinoisThe two democratic parties became the first to announce the deployment of forces. Pentagon’s public affairs officials are struggling to confirm or deny these actions and numbers of forces, and they face pressure to avoid providing even the basic details of military operations and postpone questions to the White House.
The situation is very different from President John Kennedy’s action to give the Federal Stamp to the National Guard in Alabama in 1963 to integrate the University of Alabama in a confrontation with the ruler George Wallace. This is because Trump is apparently seeking to use forces to protect federal property and federal employees, and not to impose federal civil rights laws approved by Congress, according to Lailem Banks, a law professor at the University of Siraches and an expert in constitutional law and national security.
Banks said that members of the guards cannot apply local laws, prevent traffic, or do “any of the things that the police do.” “So it is more symbolic than it is useful.”
Leaders in IllinoisThe states of Oregon and California filed a lawsuit, while the leading figures in the White House criticized the person appointed by Trump. The judge’s decision to prevent publication In Portland.
Stephen Miller, a senior Trump adviser, indicated that it was the courts that ignored the constitutional borders.
Miller posted on the X that “the provincial court judge has no authority that can be imagined at all, to restrict the president and the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces to send members of the American army to defend federal lives and property”, and semi -protests against the immigration policy of Trump “Internal terrorism.”
Legal experts say that judges are unlikely to be affected by these threats. Instead, they will consider whether Trump’s orders violate the constitution and federal laws that govern how to use the Revolutionary Guards.
Trump opponents And they relied on the court system To slow down his agenda, with Republicans not largely controlled by the Republican Congress.
With the accumulation of lawsuits, Trump officials showed their contempt for the judges and the decisions they opposed, but they have so far avoided the direct kind of confrontation that legal experts say may cause real harm.
“The possibility of challenging them from a federal court is very disturbing,” Bankax said. “This is our support. This is what we have in the United States to keep our democracy on the right track.”
Trump’s attempt to deploy the National Guard members of California in Oregon is a “clear violation of the law” and a blatant attempt to circumvent the judge’s ruling on the weekend, according to Elizabeth Gutin, an expert in the presidential authorities.
Jotin, the first director of the Freedom and National Security Program at the Brennan Justice Center at New York University, said that Americans should be concerned that Trump and Defense Minister Beit Higseth considers spreading in American cities as a practice of external conflicts.
“What the army is trained on is to fight and destroy the United States enemies. The President of the United States wants the soldiers to practice this combat training in the streets of American cities,” she wrote on one of the posts. Social media.
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The authors of the Associated Press Chris Megary, Song Min Kim and Nathan El Ijreen contributed to this report.