https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/02/opinions/trump-military-force-insurrection-act-resistance-suri/index.html
For almost 100 years, this restriction
on presidential power gave cover to flagrant violations of federal
authority in the South -- including voter suppression, Jim Crow
segregation and, worst of all, repeated extrajudicial lynchings, which
continued until 1960s. Even as the power of the president grew in the
shadow of the Second World War, he had little military reach within the
states. Governors and mayors were the heavies; the Constitution set it
up that way.
President Trump's threats to deploy the
US military to states, despite resistance from governors, are claims of
direct authority he does not possess. He is making a political judgment
about the protests, and forcing his preferred response on local law
enforcement institutions operating in their constitutionally defined
spaces.
Citizens should continue to protest
peacefully. We have a right to demand justice in our communities, and
the US military that we support with taxpayer dollars should stay free
of these issues. Our soldiers have plenty of work to do abroad, and this
president has nothing to offer our communities but more suffering and
hate.
Democracy requires justice and healing in our neighborhoods, not military domination on our streets.
For CNN, all the protests are peaceful. Are stores smashed? Are building and cars burned? Are police shot? Nah, it's all peaceful.
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