This news — you know, the stuff that shows National Guard troops aren’t exactly happy to be expendable pieces in Trump revenge schemes — is unsurprising. No one signed up for this…
I’m an Army veteran and my wife is active duty. I do not believe any of the orders that have been issued thus far are illegal. The deployment to DC is potentially on some shaky legal ground, but that rests with the president and needs to be sorted out in court. Individual troops have no reason to refuse deployment to DC and the actions they’ve performed there, as far am I’m aware, are within the bounds for legal orders.
If one state deployed NG troops to another state, without the consent of the occupied state’s governor, that would be illegal. DC is a different situation because it can be under direct federal control and they have no national guard, as they do not have statehood.
What illegal orders? This is a genuine question.
I’m an Army veteran and my wife is active duty. I do not believe any of the orders that have been issued thus far are illegal. The deployment to DC is potentially on some shaky legal ground, but that rests with the president and needs to be sorted out in court. Individual troops have no reason to refuse deployment to DC and the actions they’ve performed there, as far am I’m aware, are within the bounds for legal orders.
If one state deployed NG troops to another state, without the consent of the occupied state’s governor, that would be illegal. DC is a different situation because it can be under direct federal control and they have no national guard, as they do not have statehood.