'Effort to frighten people': Experts warn Noem push a 'prelude' to invoking Insurrection Act

[justaprogressive]

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem reportedly requested that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth grant law enforcement powers—including the authority to detain and arrest—to the thousands of military troops President Donald Trump deployed to Los Angeles to suppress anti-deportation protests. Such powers are typically barred under federal law, and experts warn the move marks another step toward the administration invoking the Insurrection Act.

In a memo, Secretary Noem alleged protestors included "invasive, violent, insurrectionist mobs that seek to protect invaders and military aged males belonging to identified foreign terrorist organizations, and who seek to prevent the deportation of criminal aliens,” as the San Francisco Chronicle first reported.

"The military is generally barred under federal laws from taking part in domestic law enforcement. Noem’s request may be a step toward the administration sidestepping those laws by invoking the Insurrection Act, two legal experts said in interviews," the Chronicle added.

Syracuse University Professor of Law Emeritus William Banks told the Chronicle that Noem's move is "a grave escalation" that "may presage the invocation of the Insurrection Act.” Professor Banks is an internationally recognized scholar on constitutional law, national security and counterterrorism law, as well as emergency powers and government surveillance and privacy, according to his biography.

https://www.alternet.org/noem-insurrection-act/

[Moostache]

1. All you need to do is check the "right" boxes...J6 PROVED this already.

BOX 1 - Are you white?
Then no further boxes are needed if you are also Republican or 'willing to experiment' Libertarian...

BOX 2 - Does Donald Trump like you? or have you recorded appearances praising his genius?
Then no further boxes are needed...

BOX 3 - Can Trump extract, extort or steal anything of real or perceived value from you or groups dependent on you?
Then proceed to the final question... (If "no", then you are a dirty communist fascist liberal and must be sent away ASAP.)

BOX 4 - Will you roll over and allow Trump to violate you at will?
If "yes", then you have a temporary pass until you don't.

BTW, Kristi Noem is the epitome of how once attractive people can deform themselves in subservience to Trump and become goblinesque creatures of no account or value. I truly hope that lip filler and BOTOX turn out to be mutagenic triggers for facial cancers of the jaw and brow.

[kysrsoze]

2. I can't wait to see Noem and Kegsbreath doing time in prison for this.