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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"...parts of the Insurrection Act also allow presidents to send in troops without requiring the consent of a governor. Presidents last invoked the act to deploy troops without the consent of state authorities in the late 1950s and early 1960s during the civil rights movement...
Mr. Trump has boasted that, if he returns to the White House, he will dispatch forces without any request for intervention by local authorities."