Prof. Michael McConnell on the Constitution and the President’s Calling out the National Guard
Prof. Michael McConnell at the Stanford Law School, a leading constitutional law scholar (and former Tenth Circuit judge), passed this along, and I’m delighted to be able to post it; note that this is about the constitutional objection to the President’s actions, not about the particular statutory scheme that’s involved or about the wisdom of the actions:
Critics claim that President Trump’s use of National Guard troops to quell the violence in Los Angeles over the opposition of the governor is contrary to the Constitution’s principles of federalism. This particular line of criticism is mistaken.
This issue was debated at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The National Guard is the modern form of what the Constitution calls the “militia.” The delegates voted to empower Congress to “provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions,” in which case the President wo
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