I was reading the fine post from u/aslan_is_0n_the_m0ve https://greatawakening.win/p/19BGmFpF0U/democrat-rep-ted-lieu-is-now-tel/c/ and had some disagreements with some of the commenters, so I was starting to reply and decided this needed a post of it's own because of what Lieu said - but more importantly what he DIDN'T say.

This part was going to be my comment, until I realized Lieu very likely knows about what I am writing below. Bear with me because it is important to the rest.

-- start of my intended comments on the other post --

Libs of TikTok have what he said wrong. That scumbag Ted Lieu skirted the line perfectly. Here is a transcript:

Speaker (Rep. Ted Lieu): The legal authority Trump is using is 10 USC section 12406. I encourage all of you to read it. It very specifically says the only way he can do this is through the orders of their governors. Of the states. Governor Newsom clearly has not given this order. The National Guard troops are following unlawful orders. I ask every National Guard person who was under this order to read the order to see if it came from Governor Newsom and then read the law and then decide for themselves if they were following unlawful orders.

He didn't tell anyone to disobey orders - he told them to read and decide for themselves. Of course what he said was legal. Look at his military career:

Ted Lieu served in the United States Air Force. He joined in 1995 and served four years on active duty as a member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He continued serving in the Air Force Reserve from 2000 to 2021, eventually reaching the rank of colonel. During his active duty, he served as a military prosecutor and advisor to commanders and received several awards for his service.

JAG, prosecutor, Colonel. He knew exactly how far to go. I can't stand this guy, but everything he said was legal.

-- end of my intended comments on the other post --

I can't, however, vouch for what he said about the authority that President Trump used. Trump could've declared the Insurrection Act, or even The Dick Act (yeah - lol) for all any of us know.

Look at this article, from the strangest of places - John Brennan's "Brennan Center for Justice"!

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/insurrection-act-explained

Note this section (I bet he is kicking himself)...:

Section 253 has two parts. The first allows the president to use the military in a state to suppress “any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” that “so hinders the execution of the laws” that any portion of the state’s inhabitants are deprived of a constitutional right and state authorities are unable or unwilling to protect that right. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy relied on this provision to deploy troops to desegregate schools in the South after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

The second part of Section 253 permits the president to deploy troops to suppress “any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” in a state that “opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.” This provision is so bafflingly broad that it cannot possibly mean what it says, or else it authorizes the president to use the military against any two people conspiring to break federal law.

It gets better.

This article goes much deeper.

https://cis.org/Fishman/President-Trump-Doesnt-Need-Invoke-Insurrection-Act-He-Already-Has

(This article is OUTSTANDING and is too long to completely quote here, but I'll put part of it here)

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How did the Militia Act come to be? Zeigler et al. wrote that:

[Secretary of War Elihu] Root recognized that militia reform would be a critical step in building a more powerful and reliable Army. To this end, he revived proposals first circulated by other[s] … such as George Washington, Henry Knox, and Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, who after the Revolutionary War sought to standardize training requirements across the state militias. Two obstacles quickly emerged. First, Root recognized that Guardsmen’s part-time status required that training programs be sufficiently flexible to accommodate civilian work rhythms and limitations … . Second, Root wanted methods to compel states to build and maintain high-quality militia outfits, which would require substantial increases in federal funding.

Then, as they explained, “In 1903, Congress codified Root’s proposals in a law.” That law was the Dick Act. It represented “a turning point in U.S. military policy”, for “After over a century of congressional inactivity, the legislation replaced the long-obsolete 1792 Militia Act and began a period of substantial reform.”

But as Zeigler et al. wrote, the Dick Act “also spelled out when and how the President might federalize the militia”. Further:

    Significantly, the Dick Act unambiguously tied the Guard to the Constitution’s militia clauses and referred to federalization in terms of the President “calling forth” the militias for the sake of domestic duties — more specifically, quelling rebellion, repelling invasion, and enforcing federal laws. … National Guard units, when in federal service, remained militias and were thus constrained by the legal limits associated with them.

    [T]he Dick Act recognized the National Guard as the organized militia identified in the militia clauses, which explicitly limited the militia’s purpose when federalized to suppressing internal insurrections, repelling invasions, and enforcing the laws of the United States.

Secretary Root enthusiastically supported the bill, writing to Chairman Dick on March 18, 1902, that it “makes reasonable and proper provision ... for [the militia’s] special employment by the General Government … in time of war or public danger, such use being made subject of special statutory limitations with respect to time, place, and occasion of its employment”.1

The Dick Act specifically allowed the president to “call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary to … execute th[e] laws” of the United States. Those are the magic words President Trump needs to utilize the National Guard to engage in direct immigration law enforcement roles in full compliance with the Posse Comitatus Act.

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I encourage everyone to read both articles I linked above. They prove Trump is a genius, is executing the Insurrection Act without actually invoking it (by using the Dick Act), and you can't make this up.

Keep paying attention, because at some point POTUS probably will actually invoke the Insurrection Act - once rogue judges try to use Ted Lieu's reasoning and logic. They will fail miserably.