A federal appeals court has temporarily allowed President Trump to maintain National Guard troops in Washington, blocking a lower court's ruling that deemed their presence unlawful. This troubling decision represents yet another dangerous expansion of executive power that threatens the fundamental principle of civilian control over military forces in American cities.
The U.S. Army has ordered additional active-duty soldiers to prepare for potential deployment to Minneapolis amid immigration protests, while President Trump has threatened to invoke the rarely used Insurrection Act. This alarming militarization of domestic dissent represents a dangerous erosion of civil liberties and constitutional norms that should terrify every freedom-loving American.
President Trump is deploying National Guard troops to U.S. cities that are not in active crisis, breaking with longstanding military tradition. This dangerous politicization of our armed forces strikes at the very heart of civilian-military norms that protect our democracy.
