Oakland Police face Federal Takeover.

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3. I wonder what his level of power is in this.

He supports peaceful assembly. However, if the state has a law against illegal assembly which the OcOakers were doing...well that I would think would be a different can of worms and would have to be left to the state law until they request for the federal government to get involved. While I have heard people compare this to the Civil Rights Movement. It is not. Segregation was not a law, it was de jure or de facto....but not an outright law which gave lee way to the federal government to make a case to get in.

I'm not saying the President is powerless because I have had that thrown in my face before. But we have to realize there is a division of power and that also leads to a nuance in governing. Somethings we think he can or could do--he has been hindered to do in the past. I wonder if that is the case here or not.