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Are any STATES' RIGHTS inviolate or can any prez send any National Guard from any state anywhere it wishes? D'ya like?

Posted - April 5, 2018
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  • 5354
    GWB managed to send them to Iraq, but I remember there was questions about the legality of that. Something about a law that had been quietly passed making the president the supreme commander with the right to take active command of them "in an emergency" (without really specifying what 'an emergency' meant). Anyway he sent them to Iraq, and they got into such a mess that the regular army had to go there too in order to get them out. The regular generals did not much like that piece of fast footwork. This post was edited by JakobA the unAmerican. at April 5, 2018 6:54 AM MDT
      April 5, 2018 6:35 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Thank you for your thoughtful, helpful and informative reply JakobA! I had forgotten about that. If I were the Governor of a state I would be OUTRAGED if I had not been consulted or asked for my consent.  Governors are responsible for their own states. What happens if there is a State emergency and the National Guard is gone to elsewhere? That does not seem fair, reasonable, logical or sensible. Happy Thursday. I know. You are going to chide me for expecting fair, reasonable, logical, sensible from government aren't you? I thought so! :(
      April 5, 2018 6:57 AM MDT
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  • 5354
    You said it yourself, so I wont (this time)
      April 5, 2018 7:16 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Smartie pants! Happy Friday JakobA! :)
      April 6, 2018 3:06 AM MDT
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  • 35532
    They changed the law after Katrina. I don't know why no state has challenged it in court. 
    So until then the Pres has ultimate power.
      April 5, 2018 7:48 PM MDT
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  • 113301
    What happens if a state emergency arises and the National Guard is engaged in border patrol elsewhere and unavailable? I think it sucks big time m2c!  The Governor is RESPONSIBLE for what goes on in his/her state and if left crippled because the prez STOLE a defense weapon which is what the National Guard is what happens then? Thank you for your reply and Happy Friday to thee! :)
      April 6, 2018 4:02 AM MDT
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  • 35532
    I don't know. I also don't know why the governors would allow the law to happen without challenging it in court, Katrina was a long time ago. Both our states and our Congress have been slowly relinquishing power to the Presidency for decades...our founders put in the checks and balances under the logical assumption that each would try to protect their power. 
    Our Pres are not supposed to have the ultimate power. 
      April 6, 2018 4:17 AM MDT
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  • 5354
    I thk you are talking about a different law. The Iraq war started in 2003 Katrina came in late 2005
      April 6, 2018 12:35 PM MDT
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  • 35532
    Maybe...but in any case you think our governors would defend their power from the federal government in court.
      April 6, 2018 12:38 PM MDT
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  • 5354
    That is hard to answer, considering how the appointment of supreme-court judges swing wildly back and forth depending on which party is in power.
      April 6, 2018 12:56 PM MDT
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