Recap of everything happening in Los Angeles (LA) this last weekend
Also, at least in my own experience, for the National Guard to be called in, it has to be with the consent of the Governor of the State (Remember the Hurricane in New Orleans? )
Or, remember when the National Guard was called out in a protest at Kent State University and shot people dead?)
And what about states rights?
Kook Felon Donald Trump issues an edict from Truth Social about arresting people wearing masks. One assumes he will also be calling to arrest ICE/Gestapo. Honestly, though, he can rave all he wants but Congress is the entity that passes laws, not him.
The Big Ugly: Stephen Miller Uses His War on Home Depot to Invade California
Yesterday, Trump used the opportunity of a protest against brutal ICE action staged out of Paramount, CA (close to a Home Depot location) to federalize 2,000 California National Guard for force protection — a step towards, but still short of, invoking the Insurrection Act (see Steve Vladeck for a description of what Trump, legally, did; update: and an even more detailed description from Lawfare). Pete Hegseth has also floated sending the Marines to an American city, a suggestion Gavin Newsom called, “deranged.”
This was a natural escalation stemming directly from Stephen Miller’s shrill tantrums demanding that ICE focus more on law-abiding undocumented people rather than the criminal aliens he lied about during the election. The escalation comes in the wake of Elon Musk’s meltdown, which might otherwise make passage of Trump’s reconciliation bill funding a massive expansion of Miller’s gulag. It comes as a few libertarians — Tom Massie called for “Realistic border funding” and “No bloat for military industrial complex” in his pitch for a new “skinny” bill — focus on the huge funding for the gulag.
Repeating that Stephen Miller is going after law-abiding undocumented people RATHER THAN CRIMINAL ALIENS. Consider that the ICE people try to keep people from knowing who they are, by wearing masks, or carrying no visible identification, and have made numerous mistakes in kidnapping people to send away. He is disgusting and so is Trump in trying to gin up illegal gestapo tactics not just against undocumented people but AGAINST AMERICAN CITIZENS EXERCISING THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS of protest. (Consider that Trump not only encouraged the Jan 6 traitors to invade and trash Congress but even after a whole people were arrested and tried in court for what they did, he PARDONED THEM. )
FBI Director Kash Patel was mocked online after responding to
anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles, telling demonstrators, “If you hit a
police officer, you’re in jail.”On Saturday, Patel wrote on his X account, “It doesn’t matter where
you’re from, how you got here, or what movement you represent. If your
local police force doesn’t support our men and women on the thin blue
line, we at the FBI will.”Social media users were quick to point out the administration’s
different approach to the January 6 rioters, hundreds of whom were
pardoned by President Donald Trump.During the violent 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, more than 140 police officers were injured. One, Brian Sikkink, died the next day, and several others committed suicide in the days and weeks following the attack. Rioters were urged to march on the Capitol and “fight like hell, or you won’t have a country anymore” on the day he was declared president after his defeat by Joe Biden. Trump was criminally prosecuted for his actions, although the charges were dropped when he ran for reelection in 2024.
Patel’s tweet, posted Saturday night, prompted some social media users to point out the irony of the situation. One user responded to Patel’s comment by saying, “Unless you’re doing it for Trump,” and another added, “Unless you’re trying to overturn the election.”
Another user retorted, “But if you did it dressed as Trump during the Capitol riot, you would have been pardoned, right, Cash?” Other users flocked to the post, sharing photos and videos of the clashes between police and protesters on January 6…
On his first day in office, Trump pardoned approximately 1,500 people accused or convicted of their role in the attack, including those convicted of violent attacks on police officers.
The Trump administration now plans to pay millions of dollars in compensation to the family of Ashli Babbitt, a pro-Trump rioter shot and killed at the Capitol
