18 U.S. Code § 592

[bigtree]

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18 U.S. Code § 592 states that any officer of the Army or Navy, or any person in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, who orders, brings, keeps, or has under their control any troops or armed men at a location where a general or special election is held, commits a crime unless such force is necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States. Violators may be fined, imprisoned for up to five years, or both, and are disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the United States.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/592

___Deployment is only lawful if it is necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States. Routine law enforcement or maintaining order is not a valid justification.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Being against the law and a crime is not enough of a reason for Trump to stop something.

[bigtree]

3. tell that to the states

...they fully intend to stop this.

Courts have stood down several deployments so far. This isn't even a question for them.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Should be an interesting show down.

How will states stop Trump's flying monkeys?

[TomSlick]

10. My recommendation would be to arrest the senior federal agent present.

Give an order to disburse and if the goons don't leave, arrest the then senior federal agent present. Repeat until compliance with the law is obtained.

[Irish_Dem]

11. It has been said that no one wants blue on blue violence.

You know the ICE agents will protect their leadership.
What's to stop them from shooting LE dead on the spot.
They know they will be pardoned by Trump.

I don't think LE will go up against Trump's gestapo?

Trump could also order US military in to "protect" polling places.

What a mess.

I wonder if this is how a civil war starts?

[bigtree]

15. taco

...

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Which is precisely why it's not going to happen. Nt

[malaise]

4. You'd think that he knew the

answer

[bigtree]

5. ignorance or arrogance?

...or both?

It's part of the authoritarian playbook, most likely. Just assert the dominance until someone actually stops them.

[malaise]

6. Agree

Rec

[bucolic_frolic]

8. That information should be everywhere every day

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. If trump tries this, there will be litigation

I was part of Hillary Clinton’s victory Counsel team in Texas. I had reports of some national guard stationed in front of a voting location near San Antonio. I had a contact at the Texas Secretary of State office who promised to get them removed.

[struggle4progress]

12. My AI program discovered Todd Blanche is a nazi war criminal who time-travelled here from 1945

[Cheezoholic]

22. Man in the "Low" Castle lmao n/t

[surfered]

13. Excellent! Thank you

[littlemissmartypants]

14. They're a bunch of ignorant propagandists.

Who needs to know the law when you can just make shit up as you go.

It's really dangerous and stupid. Luckily for us, we aren't.

[SSJVegeta]

16. A federal judge must be ready to depitize local and state law enforcement to immediately respond to any attempt.

[Billsdaughter]

17. MAGA cares not a whit about truth, law or

facts. So let's move past that shall we? The main pillars of MAGA are disinformation, misinformation and stone-faced lying.

This is fascism.

In 2024, I was made to walk up to my precinct while masked men carrying AR15 assault rifles told me I had better vote the right way. I have a big mouth and usually don't mind using it but I was so terrified I said not one word. I entered, voted and left. Quietly.

2 years later, I'm hoping we HAVE an election.

We are in hell.

[leftstreet]

18. DURec

[Devilsun]

19. Repukes will somehow manage to twist the meaning of this statute!

[BurnDoubt]

20. Kraznov has already...

damned us for being The Enemy.
… "The officer thought it was a gun. But it was only a loaded Ballot.”

Can we hear from any “Originalists" on the Panel?

[progressoid]

21. He's just trying to rally their lack luster troops.

[NNadir]

23. Laws? They don't need no stinking laws.