So Posse Comitatus is no longer a law huh? Who knew it was so easy for a president to just ignore whatever laws were inconvenient
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Who knew it was so easy for a president to just ignore whatever laws were inconvenient
When you're the president they just let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the Posse.
oh snap
And "the greater LA area" might actually extend all the way to the Nevada border. See my top-level comment.
Yeah I was wondering that, because the greater la area is enormous
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I based the "come in peace" bit from an actual thing Mad Dog Mattis said to Iraqi leaders following the invasion.
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Ports and Internation Airports are considered "ports of entry" right? Doesn't ICE have permission to operate within something like a 100 mile radius?
I'm not sure. But it's horribly worse than that. They have special authority up to 100 miles from the US border. And that's where most people live. Here's an article with a map - 100-Mile Border Enforcement Zone Of course - under Trump 2.0 - I wouldn't be surprised if they used those powers anywhere. Who's gonna stop them?
That's the other part of that I forgot.
the laws have been made up all along
maybe the real laws were all the friends we made along the way
Are you surprised?
Those busted by them will be able to use the violation of posse comitatus as a defense and get the whole thing thrown out for arrest outside jurisdiction and with no standing. Fucking imbeciles.
i'm having a hard time thinking anything will "go back to normal" when/if Trump leaves..
Frankly, a part of me wants to see him lose power to a dem to see how they try to wash over the very unburied imperial boomerang that is lying at our feet.
They'll continue doing 80% of the things Trump did but they won't tweet as much about it and dem-aligned media will stop covering it.
The law doesn't matter anymore, they can do what they want.
They did the same shit with the Patriot Act
A Bluesky thread by the reporter - https://bsky.app/profile/nslayton.bsky.social/post/3lsedysldic2o
Some definitions of the "Greater Los Angeles Area," including government ones, extend all of the way to the California-Nevada border. Is that what US troops are operating under? No confirmation but quite possibly.