SFChron: Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

[Dennis Donovan]

Last edited Fri Mar 7, 2025, 10:22 AM - Edit history (1)

SFChron - (archived: https://archive.ph/CSezx ) Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

A joint Department of Defense and Homeland Security report will soon recommend whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act over illegal migration

By Brett Wagner
March 5, 2025

The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Donald Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report, within 90 days, recommending “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.”

Many of us are now holding our collective breath, knowing that the report and what it contains could put us on the slippery slope toward unchecked presidential power under a man with an affinity for ironfisted dictators.

Adding to the suspense was the recent “Friday Night Massacre” at the Pentagon — the firing of the nation’s top uniformed officer and removing other perceived guardrails (i.e., the top uniformed lawyers at the Army, Navy and Air Force) standing between the president and his long-stated intention to declare martial law upon returning to power.

Coincidence?

As we wait to find out, this would be a good time to take a closer look.

/snip

[no_hypocrisy]

1. In many cases, it will be hard to

enforce curfews. Commerce demands transportation at all hours for workers, deliveries, services.

Even if local police are federalized, not enough of them. Barely enough to protect their communities.

And there will be push-back. Living in American democracy for 250 years, we’re not going to abide with home confinement.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Dave Troy: Coincidence between Elmo's massive data mining op while POTUS prepares to impose martial law?

Dave Troy
‪@davetroy.com‬
"Is it a coincidence that the president would set the world’s richest man loose inside all of the government’s computers — allowing access to everything the government knows about you — at the same moment he could be preparing to impose martial law?"
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
March 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM

https://bsky.app/profile/davetroy.com/post/3ljs43vtnis26

[Auggie]

3. The next three paragraphs ...

for those who can't get past the paywall.

Say, for example, that Trump were to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law. He wouldn’t even be required, by the letter of the law, to allege an “insurrection.” All that would be required is to assert that “unlawful obstruction” has made it “impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States” (as President Dwight D. Eisenhower did when he ordered the Arkansas National Guard to enforce the desegregation of Little Rock, Ark., schools).

This is where all the false claims and outright lies Trump and his political allies have been pushing will come into play: Trump falsely alleging, for example, that an entire city in Colorado has been taken over by Venezuelan street gangs, that a city in Ohio has been overrun by Haitian refugees who are eating all the cats and dogs, and other vague assertions that “millions and millions” of “illegals” are pouring into our country every week (or “day” depending on who’s telling the lie at the moment).

Each of these false claims and outright lies could be distilled, to declare martial law, into catchy phrases (beginning with the legalese word “Whereas”) to establish the legal premise for invoking the Insurrection Act, and to lay the predicate to begin going door-to-door, wherever they please, under the pretense of searching for undocumented immigrants who don’t exist.

Thanks for sharing, Dennis Donovan

[Dennis Donovan]

4. Weird, no subscription but it let me in. I edited the OP to include a link to the archived article

[Auggie]

5. Unusual. Glad it worked out.

Door-to-door searches? It's nightmare stuff, and somewhat plausible in California, especially if "they" want to target blue districts out of spite.

[Ollie Garkie]

6. Markets?

Would tank some more? Is that the idea? Or is he really starting to test the patience of the corporate and Wall Street muckity mucks? Better watch his fried chicken and diet coke really closely?