Even if it were true, that does not amount to rebellion. Nobody is trying to overthrow the federal government.

Yet.

That's standard Republican strategy. A lot of the cases that ended up in front of the Supreme Court are straight up manufactured. In the case of the lady who refused to create a website for a gay wedding, they contacted the guy who supposedly made the request and he'd never heard of it before. Republican operatives basically looked up a gay guy in San Francisco and used his details in the website's contact form.

Despite all that, the courts happily took the case and ruled on a complete fiction. Same thing happened in the case of the coach that forced his football team to pray.

Well, it's mostly true. I mean this isn't normal civil unrest. This is the people being fed up with a government trying to use fear as a weapon against it's own people. And the mob violence isn't generally preventing federal officers from doing what they want, it is in response to it. There is some mob shouting preventing some federal officers ftom doing what they want.

But issue at hand is that the law is very vague about the quantity needed to trigger the allowance of using the national guard. By just reading it, ICE could send a single agent to arrest 5 people in a facility that has 500. If the people stop the arrests, then it meets the written requirements. It ludicrous though to interpret it that way of course. But since it was written so poorly, we are at the mercy of the courts.

Fuck these feckless attorneys who are willing to do this shit.

They should never be able to work again after this. At best. Many belong in prison.

I mean hes done it before with no consequences so we'll see

It doesn't.

When you've got control of the armed services of the government. And you tell the opposition "we've got the guns. Fuck are you going to do about it". Law becomes paper. And the only thing left is the law of the jungle. In other words. War

The keyword is rebellion...

But it is not really about current protests ... it is to have all lights on green when there actually IS a rebellion cooking so the response can be swift and far beyond proportions.

Yes, they do, because it will distract from the US joining a war in Iran, and from all of trumps other crimes.

Not yet.

That is how they want everyone to feel so there isn't much fight back. However, I think if there was, and the gloves came off, it may also split Republicans and even Trumpers.

Either "We agree, he can do that" or "No, he can't do that." In either case, he will do that and nobody will stop him.