What Trump has done, instead, is to lean on his executive order of June 26, wherein he writes that local leaders and local law enforcement вЂњhave lost the will or the desire to stand up to the radical fringeвЂќ and вЂњdefend the fundamental truth that America is good, her people virtuous, and that justice prevails in this country to a far greater extent than anywhere else in the world.вЂќ Trump hasnвЂ™t invoked the Insurrection Act to justify placing federal forces in Portland, but he could, by citing вЂњdomestic violenceвЂќ or the even vaguer term вЂњconspiracyвЂќ and by claiming that вЂњregular meansвЂќ arenвЂ™t quelling the violence. The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president unilaterally to use troops domestically if вЂњrebellious activityвЂќ has made it вЂњimpracticableвЂќ to enforce federal law вЂњthrough regular meansвЂќ or because the president вЂњdeems it necessary to suppress insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy.вЂќ ItвЂ™s not just the National Emergencies Act that gives a president enormous leeway.

The Brennan Center has published a guide to presidential emergency powers, which you can find here. The powers also include the ability to shut down radio stations and control or shut down the Internet. These include the power to вЂњunilaterally suspend the law that bars government testing of biological and chemical agents on unwitting human subjects,вЂќ Elizabeth Goitein of the Brennan Center pointed out in The Atlantic in 2019. cities, including Milwaukee - is just a taste of things to come.ДЄs he showed in Lafayette Square, Trump has no compunction about calling on federal forces to further his political ends.ДЄnd Trump can invoke any number of statutes, executive orders, and national security directives to justify his march to martial law.ДЄs Gary Hart mentioned in an op-ed in The New York Times on Wednesday, the National Emergencies Act of 1978 grants the President 123 statutory powers.

President TrumpвЂ™s use of federal officers to conduct law enforcement operations in Portland -and his threat to bring them to other U.S.

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