Newt Gingrich: Denver Mayor Pushes Confederate-Style ‘Insurrection’ by Blocking Deportations

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Newt Gingrich: Denver Mayor Pushes Confederate-Style ‘Insurrection’ by Blocking Deportations

Warner Todd Huston 26 Nov 2024

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich likened Denver’s Democrat mayor to a Civil War-era Confederate insurrectionist due to the mayor’s defense of illegal migrants.

Via his X account on Monday, Gingrich warned Denver Mayor Mike Johnston that the idea of “defying the federal government” was settled “when General Lee surrendered.”

The former House Speaker was comparing Johnston to a Confederate insurrectionist for the mayor’s defense of illegal migrants and noted that the question over nullifying federal law was settled by the Civil War, and that Johnston’s actions are no different than the insurrectionary acts of the Confederate States of America in the 1860s.

“The mayor of Denver doesn’t seem to understand that the United States Army settled the question of states, counties and cities defying the federal government in a meeting at Appomattox in 1865 when General Lee surrendered,” Gingrich noted.

“Denver attempting to block the federal government detention and deportation of illegal aliens would be an act of insurrection and would be immediately crushed by the federal government,” Gingrich insisted.

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https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/11/26/newt-gingrich-denver-mayor-pushes-confederate-style-insurrection-blocking-deportations/

[libertybele]

Trump then needs to invoke the Insurrection Act

The Act empowers the U.S. president to call into service the U.S. Armed Forces and the National Guard:

    when requested by a state's legislature, or governor if the legislature cannot be convened, to address an insurrection against that state (§ 251),
    to address an insurrection, in any state, which makes it impracticable to enforce the law (§ 252), or
    to address an insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination or conspiracy, in any state, which results in the deprivation of constitutionally secured rights, and where the state is unable, fails, or refuses to protect said rights...........

Trump now has  no concerns about using this and getting re-elected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807

Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson all invoked this act -- Trump should do the same, immediately and without hesitation.