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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRachel reporting Justice asking Defense
to send active duty JAG's to the border to prosecute cases
Defense has said they will do it
This is a violation of US Code
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Rachel reporting Justice asking Defense (Original Post)
montanacowboy
Jun 2018
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still_one
(98,883 posts)1. We are moving toward a police state
Pachamama
(17,565 posts)2. Et Tous Mattis?
MagickMuffin
(18,322 posts)3. Could you cite the code?
I'm not familiar with it and not sure how to google it.
cpamomfromtexas
(1,490 posts)4. Violation of Posse Commitatis(sp?)?
arthritisR_US
(7,812 posts)6. I think it's an absolute violation of the Posse Comitatus ACT.
DVRacer
(734 posts)5. If you are referring to Posse Comitatus
Here is an exclusion to the act:
Enforcement of federal law at the discretion of the President of the United States, such as with the 101st Airborne Division by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957.