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Trump is imposing martial law in DC on the flimsiest pretext
« on: August 19, 2025, 08:59:12 am »
 Trump is imposing martial law in DC on the flimsiest pretext
by James D. Zirin, opinion contributor - 08/19/25 8:30 AM ET

However you slice it, President Trump has implemented de facto martial law in the District of Columbia. He declared an emergency, seized control of the 3,100-member Metropolitan Police Department, unnecessarily called out the National Guard — and no one except the federal courts can stop him.

With crime down in the District, the takeover is a grotesquely incompetent pretextual policy that sets a bad precedent, and perhaps a chilling dry run for things to come in other blue cities such as Baltimore, Oakland and even New York City.

Implementing Trump’s executive order, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed D.C.’s mayor to recognize Terrance Cole, head of the DEA, as “emergency police commissioner.”

Trump’s action was so at odds with the 1973 Home Rule Act that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb sued to enjoin the unprecedented takeover. “The Administration is abusing its temporary, limited authority under the law,” Schwalb tweeted on Aug. 15. “This is the gravest threat to Home Rule D.C. has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it.”

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https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5458251-trump-is-imposing-martial-law-in-dc-on-the-flimsiest-of-pretexts/
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Re: Trump is imposing martial law in DC on the flimsiest pretext
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2025, 09:07:51 am »
Quote from: mystery-ak on August 19, 2025, 08:59:12 am
With crime down in the District

Only thru statistical tricks ... stabbings are classified as "trips to the hospital", assaults are "personal disputes", etc.

And yet, even with all that, DC still has the 4th-highest murder rate per capita !!

Feds had to step in ... this is willful incompetence

(now do the same for Chicago, and watch the Dem machine explode)
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Re: Trump is imposing martial law in DC on the flimsiest pretext
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2025, 09:09:58 am »
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no one except the federal courts can stop him.

You mean a federal court with a "Shopped" Judge.
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Re: Trump is imposing martial law in DC on the flimsiest pretext
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2025, 09:51:36 am »
Civilian institutions are failing, dysfunctional, or non-functional.  As civilian Government is no longer able or willing to maintain order and civility, it is only natural for military, police, militia, or vigilante organizations to fill the void to re-establish order and civility.

DC Government only has itself to blame.  They were unwilling to maintain order and civility because they bought into the George Floyd Black Lives Matter Social Justice No Bail Soft-on-Crime horse$h!t that swept the nation.
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Re: Trump is imposing martial law in DC on the flimsiest pretext
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2025, 09:54:21 am »
"The Hill" Enough said!
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Re: Trump is imposing martial law in DC on the flimsiest pretext
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2025, 10:04:21 am »
Author needs to google "Martial law", habeous corpus was not suspended and what Trump is doing is well within his power as CE.
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Re: Trump is imposing martial law in DC on the flimsiest pretext
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2025, 05:44:43 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on August 19, 2025, 10:04:21 am
Author needs to google "Martial law", habeous corpus was not suspended and what Trump is doing is well within his power as CE.


Absolutely!
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Re: Trump is imposing martial law in DC on the flimsiest pretext
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2025, 06:03:03 pm »
Martial law?
Down in DC?
Sounds about...
...right to me.
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