{"id":19345,"date":"2025-09-05T22:57:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19345"},"modified":"2025-09-05T22:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:57:54","slug":"when-it-comes-to-fighting-crime-with-the-national-guard-trump-says-he-can-do-anything-i-want-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19345","title":{"rendered":"When It Comes to Fighting Crime With the National Guard, Trump Says, He Can Do &#8216;Anything I Want To Do&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;When Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/06\/10\/gavin-newsom-defends-federalism-against-trumps-unilateral-national-guard-deployment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">took control<\/a>&nbsp;of the California National Guard last June, he relied on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/10\/12406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10 USC 12406<\/a>, a previously obscure statute that authorizes the president to &#8220;call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State&#8221; in three circumstances: 1) when the United States &#8220;is invaded or is in danger of invasion by a foreign nation,&#8221; 2) when &#8220;there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States,&#8221; or 3) when &#8220;the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.&#8221; The government&#8217;s lawyers argued that Los Angeles&#8217; protests against the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration crackdown created both of the latter two conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/08\/27\/when-it-comes-to-fighting-crime-with-the-national-guard-trump-says-he-can-do-anything-i-want-to-do\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/08\/27\/when-it-comes-to-fighting-crime-with-the-national-guard-trump-says-he-can-do-anything-i-want-to-do<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When Trump took control of the California National Guard last June, he relied on 10 USC 12406, a previously obscure statute that authorizes the president to &#8220;call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State&#8221; in three circumstances: 1) when the United States &#8220;is invaded or is in danger of invasion by a foreign nation,&#8221; 2) when &#8220;there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States,&#8221; or 3) when &#8220;the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.&#8221; The government&#8217;s lawyers argued that Los Angeles&#8217; protests against the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration crackdown created both of the latter two conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/08\/27\/when-it-comes-to-fighting-crime-with-the-national-guard-trump-says-he-can-do-anything-i-want-to-do\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,744,902,431,660,221,259,874,170,1822],"class_list":["post-19345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-crime","tag-dc","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-military","tag-national-guard","tag-trump","tag-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19346,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19345\/revisions\/19346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}