Trump declares hundreds of miles of the southern border part of a "military base" to sidestep the Posse Comitatus Act-gc

[AllGold]

Looking for links on this, it was hard to find much media coverage.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/r...ens-rights

[Acer]

"California is now a military base. The governor will report to General S. Inkophant for debriefing."

[JoeH]

Only Congress can establish bases, but watch the GOP just ignore that.

[Ombligo]

Let me guess, He'll name it after George Van Horn Moseley. A former Army general that is right up Trump's alley.

• Mosely was fiercely anti-immigrant and antisemitic. He spoke in support of fascim.
  
• He was twice recruited to lead coups against FDR
  
• Moseley supported admitting refugees from Nazi Germany, but added the provision "that they all be sterilized before being permitted to embark."
  
• Moseley also tried to lobby the New York National Guard adjutant general to "cleanse" the state forces of all Jews and persons of color
  
• Mosely compared Jews to syphilis
  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Horn_Moseley

[AllGold]

Not a new base. He/they are declaring a small strip along the border is now part of an existing base in Arizona. :censor:

[vision63]

Ombligo wrote:
Let me guess, He'll name it after George Van Horn Moseley. A former Army general that is right up Trump's alley.

• Mosely was fiercely anti-immigrant and antisemitic. He spoke in support of fascim.
  
• He was twice recruited to lead coups against FDR
  
• Moseley supported admitting refugees from Nazi Germany, but added the provision "that they all be sterilized before being permitted to embark."
  
• Moseley also tried to lobby the New York National Guard adjutant general to "cleanse" the state forces of all Jews and persons of color
  
• Mosely compared Jews to syphilis
  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Horn_Moseley

You are so woke. Nothing wrong with a little Aryan supremacy.

[JoeH]

AllGold wrote:
Not a new base. He/they are declaring a small strip along the border is now part of an existing base in Arizona. :censor:

Congress still decides the extent of a base, not the President. But as I wrote above, the current GOP isn't going to do anything about it. Being declared part of a military base has consequences, such as reimbursement of current property owners.

[vision63]

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