Experts are warning that the Trump administration's ongoing crackdown in Minnesota could quickly get out of hand and could even result in a second US civil war.

Claire Finkelstein, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, wrote in a Wednesday column published by the Guardian that she and her colleagues at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) conducted a tabletop exercise in October 2024 that simulated potential outcomes if a US president were to carry out law enforcement operations similar to the ones being conducted by the Trump administration with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Minnesota.

"In that exercise, a president carried out a highly unpopular law-enforcement operation in Philadelphia and attempted to federalize the Pennsylvania’s National Guard," Finkelstein explained. "When the governor resisted and the guard remained loyal to the state, the president deployed active-duty troops, resulting in an armed conflict between state and federal forces."

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[–] 145 points 9 months ago (8 children)

We know. All of this is very horrible

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    And incredibly predictable. I lost friends ten years ago when I said this is exactly what would happen.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, my sister thought I was a doomsayer for predicting it after Jan 6. She doesn't think that anymore now that she's driving her Hispanic friends' kids to school so they don't get kidnapped by the government.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah, and it’s not like we haven’t been through this before…

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    We had two separate armies before. Not this time.

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