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FWIW: A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Texas "is not preparing to deploy troops to Illinois," ...
Anna Bower
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FWIW: A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Texas “is not preparing to deploy troops to Illinois,” per the Austin American-Statesman.
https://www.statesman.com/politics/texas/article/national-guard-chicago-abbott-21027479.php
Gov. Greg Abbott's office disputed a claim from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday that the Texas National Guard was preparing to deploy to his state as part of a law and order crackdown by the Trump administration.
Texas is not preparing to deploy troops to Illinois, a spokesman for Abbott said on
Tuesday afternoon.
ALT
Anna Bower
@annabower.bsky.social
· 5h
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control.
That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state.
And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
September 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
@annabower.bsky.social
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FWIW: A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Texas “is not preparing to deploy troops to Illinois,” per the Austin American-Statesman.
https://www.statesman.com/politics/texas/article/national-guard-chicago-abbott-21027479.php
Gov. Greg Abbott's office disputed a claim from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday that the Texas National Guard was preparing to deploy to his state as part of a law and order crackdown by the Trump administration.
Texas is not preparing to deploy troops to Illinois, a spokesman for Abbott said on
Tuesday afternoon.
ALT
Anna Bower
@annabower.bsky.social
· 5h
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control.
That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state.
And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
September 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Anna Bower
@annabower.bsky.social
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If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control.
That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state.
And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
· 6h
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
September 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
@annabower.bsky.social
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If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control.
That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state.
And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
· 6h
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
September 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control.
— Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) 2025-09-02T21:50:11.280Z
That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state.
And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
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