No reason to waste time addressing Patel’s, or your dishonest motivations.
Fact - Trump did not officially order or authorize the use National Guard troops prior to, or on January 6th.
Acting SECDEF Miller’s sworn testimony and absence of any documentation whatsoever to support Trump/Patel’s lies confirms that.
Fact -
POTUS does have authority, under the insurrection act,
to order the deployment of National Guard troops in states with or without any Governor’s request, and even against any Governor’s wishes.
Multiple historical references bear out that fact.
The National Guard is part of a "ready" reserve category that can be activated by the president in a national emergency with or without the authority of state governors,
as stated in H.R. 5426 (82nd).
The president also has the ability to dispatch the military or federalize the National Guard in states that either defy federal law or cannot control insurrections under the Insurrection Act of 1807”
The Insurrection Act was last used by President George H.W. Bush in 1992, when the acquittal of the LAPD officers who beat Rodney King sparked the Los Angeles riots.
When and why has the Guard been activated on U.S. soil?
The National Guard has been activated at least 16 times at the federal level, according Dr. Richard Clark, historian for the National Guard Bureau.
Included in Clark's timeline are:
- Whiskey Rebellion in 1792
- Civil War from 1861-65
- Against the Ku Klux Klan from 1866-1977
- Great Railroad Strike in 1877
- Desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas from 1957-58
- Desegregation of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi in 1962
- Desegregation of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1963
- Integration of Alabama Public Schools in 1963
- March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965
- Detroit Riots in 1967
- 1968 King assassination riots in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
- New York City Postal Strike in 1970
- 1980 Cuban Refugee Crisis
- Hurricane Hugo in 1989
- 1992 LA Riots
- George Floyd protests in multiple locations nationwide in 2020”
A social media claim on federal activation of the National Guard that claims it is "almost exclusively called against Black citizens" is false.
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