Post B1LT9BlOqvYdN3fJOS by Heartofcoyote@neuromatch.social
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 (DIR) Post #B1LRrTgZNdFBmxOfk8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-12-17T16:26:15Z
       
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       A federal appeals court in Washington ruled Wednesday that the #NationalGuard in #WashingtonDC since August by #Trump could remain while the court considered the legality of the deployment.https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.42631/gov.uscourts.cadc.42631.1208806141.0.pdfThe decision prolongs Trump’s most expansive effort so far to use the#military to #police a #Democratic city, after smaller deployments in several states were halted or wound down, as a result of orders by federal judges around the #US.#law #MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct
       
 (DIR) Post #B1LSS3siHYZ0TOWOY4 by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-12-17T16:32:38Z
       
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       Voting unanimously to allow the #NationalGuard to remain, the panel wrote that the #Trump admin appeared likely to prevail in the case, because of #WashingtonDC’s unique status.Because DC “is a #federal district created by #Congress, rather than a constitutionally #sovereign entity like the 50 #states, the defendants appear…likely to prevail on the merits of their argument that the president possesses a unique power within the District—the seat of the federal government—to mobilize the Guard.”
       
 (DIR) Post #B1LT9BlOqvYdN3fJOS by Heartofcoyote@neuromatch.social
       2025-12-17T16:40:06Z
       
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       @Nonilex And yet when a mob broke into the Capitol Building, we were told it wasn’t possible to send the National Guard — who were literally lined up and waiting for the order — to support the Capitol Police in restoring order. 🤬