There is no such thing as a conceivable motive for President Donald Trump to deploy U.S. navy personnel to Massachusetts, in response to Gov. Maura Healey.
Healey, talking Wednesday to Bloomberg Tv, mentioned that the Trump administration’s threats to ship troops to Democratic strongholds throughout the nation is particularly baseless relating to the Bay State.
“There is no need to federalize the Massachusetts National Guard,” the governor mentioned, earlier than saying that folks have to “focus on what’s actually going on.”
On Tuesday, a federal decide in California declared that the president’s use of energetic responsibility Marines and members of the Nationwide Guard as regulation enforcement brokers was a blatant violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the federal authorities from utilizing the navy to implement federal regulation.
The Trump administration misplaced that case, in response to Healey, partially as a result of there was no motive for the troops to be on the bottom in Los Angeles within the first place.
“The emergency was not in L.A., that’s why Trump lost that case,” Healey mentioned. “There are emergencies — there are real emergencies right now in our country that need to be addressed — emergencies that Donald Trump doesn’t seem to want to talk about, particularly the economy.”
Threats to ship troops to Chicago and elsewhere, Healey mentioned, are simply makes an attempt by the administration to distract from the issues “that the president and the administration are not delivering on.”
Past that, policing the streets of america and the habits of their fellow countrymen just isn’t the duty for which the Nationwide Guard was shaped, neither is it the mission its members joined to assist, in response to the governor.
“To put the Guard on the streets in a way that they were never intended to be used — which is domestically against our own citizens — that’s not what the Guard is supposed to be doing. That is not the mission, nor do I think it is the mission that the good men and women of the Guard signed up for,” she mentioned.
Trump on Wednesday indicated some measure of indecision on the place he may subsequent ship the U.S. navy towards American civilians. The forty seventh president appeared to recommend it might be higher to deploy troops to Louisiana, the place he’s much less more likely to encounter the type of pushback he’s seen in current days from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
Trump mentioned, “Do we go to Chicago? Do we go to a place like New Orleans, where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that’s become quite, you know, quite tough, quite bad.”
