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Call to arms with posse1/3/2024 "If you owe the city money, we are either going to get it or your car," he warned yesterday.Įquipped with 35 of the new $5,000 computers, his deputies will each be able to impound at least 20 scofflaw vehicles a day and bring in $40 million to the city this year. Crimaldi, New York City's sheriff, will soon be using handheld computers and tow trucks to go after vehicles with millions of dollars in unpaid fines.īeginning at an undisclosed location in Manhattan next month, he says, he will begin seizing cars with a backlog of unpaid parking tickets in what city officials describe as the biggest scofflaw roundup ever tried. He can be reached on Twitter, or at He will resist.Forget about wanted posters and blazing guns. Trump proposes sending troops to U.S.-Mexico border until wall is built Įlie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. ![]() If he does this, it should be an impeachable offense - and we should pray that we still have generals loyal to the Republic and not the strongman in the White House.Īnd if he does this and it doesn’t result in immediate impeachment - if we let the bigotry of the Republican base blind us to this obvious violation free government, we’ll deserve every horrible thing we’re going to get. This is how despots start to transition a civilian government into a military one. That’s not “like” a military dictator, that IS military dictatorship. Instead of working with and dealing with the legislative branch of government, he wants to use his powers as commander-in-chief to make it happen over their objection. It is the very democratic principles that Trump abhors that’s making him think about using the military to enforce his policy goals at the point of a gun. Make no mistake, Trump intends to use the military to enforce domestic regulations, because he is tired of going through the process that is required of his domestic enforcement agencies. So the minute an army ranger is ordered to look behind him and grab a person already inside America, he will be used in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. We have a civilian legal process that is supposed to be in charge of handling people who cross our borders illegally. We have courts and judges to handle that. We have non-military law enforcement to handle that. Once those people cross the border, they are in violation of American domestic laws. People fleeing poverty and desperation will exploit those gaps. ![]() Even if they stretch out their arms and hold hands, we don’t have the manpower. We don’t have enough troops to put a literal human wall between us and Mexico. The soldiers will round-up immigrants who make it across the border, which will be a violation of the Act.This situation has already happened and our Supreme Court has decided to dodge the issue, to our deep shame. The soldiers will keep their feet on American soil, but fire their bullets into Mexico, murdering Mexican citizens.The soldiers will step foot in Mexico… which will be an ACT OF WAR on our part, and Mexico and any allies they can muster would be within their sovereign rights to harm our soldiers.If troops are really deployed on the border, one of three things will happen: We know this, because occasionally they get busted for doing it.Īnd the armed forces act specifically allows the president to use the military on domestic soil for natural disasters, “terrorism” or “other incidents.” I do not think that the spirit of that authorization allows the military to grab civilians who don’t have their legal papers in order, but then again I don’t have an irrational hatred for brown people who are willing to work for less money than I am.īut in practice, this will be a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. We know that our military is engaged in all kinds of “activities” on domestic soil, mainly under the guise of protecting us from terrorism. ![]() Moreover, one can also argue that, post 9/11, Posse Comitatus is a dead law walking. ![]() That wouldn’t be a violation of Posse Comitatus, that would just be the president starting a war in order to win an election (coming soon to a theater near you, I’m sure). One can imagine, for instance, the president stationing troops along the border in preparation for an invasion into Mexico. From Morgan Stanley At Work and Above The Law Show clients how to approach employee tax mobility, equity compensation, and related issues when managing a global workforce.
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