Blue States Should Seriously Consider ALL Options to Disband Their State's National Guard Units.

Although every state has one, there is no federal requirement that they do.

And since Trump is repeatedly violating federal law by using such units to be deployed for domestic "law enforcement" duties, the governors of California, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania (the largest states with Democratic governors) should consult with their AGs and legislatures and disband their state's National Guard units as soon as possible.

Since states have rarely needed their Guard units to quell domestic disturbances, those states can easily replace the duties of the Guard to help with natural disasters by other means.

That might not stop Trump from federalizing, say, Ohio's National Guard or South Carolina's. But Republican voters in such Red States will tire of Trump's tractics pretty quick due to the strain such deployments put on Guard members and their families when Guard members are sent to San Francisco or Seattle to plant flowers and pick up trash as they were doing in D.C.

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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

I am sorry. But you are still thinking like a Democrat. Acting like the law and the rules mean anything in America has got the country into the dire state you currently "enjoy".. Judges orders mean nothing to Trump or his people. But there is one way short of violence to stop him and the government shut down is the best possible time to employ it. All "donor" states to the US federal funds should simply halt all remitions immediately. Those funds should then be immediately employed for the benefit of those states. to insure they cannot be recovered later..Money is one sure way to get Trumps attention and he cant tie the matter up in court..Then each states national guard units will have a cause and territory to defend in the event of federal threats of force..😷

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@whowasthatmaskedman

By federal law, National Guard units can be federalized for legitimate purposes. Trump's reasons are not legitimate, hence the push-back from the states and courts.

But if there in no National Guard in a state to federalize...

The funds that states use to pay and train their own Guard units can be redirected to pay for the things their own Guard units typically do in their home states, which is deployment to help with natural disasters.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@beckyromero And there is that word "legitimate" again. Trump and his pet republicans are just not playing withing the legitimate guidelines and if the Democrats continue to play that way they will lose..😷

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@whowasthatmaskedman

Hence the rationale for eliminating the Guard in state that Democrats can do so.