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Joinfortmill

(19,076 posts) Mon Oct 6, 2025, 06:42 PM 10 hrs ago

Heads Up: Harry Litman of Bluesky is stating Trump is considering invoking the Insurrection Act. [View all]

'Being continually foiled in his efforts to militarize US cities under 10 USC 1206, Trump is now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act. Can he just get away with it, legally and politically? Looking forward to discussing w/ @jimsciutto.bsky.social on @cnn at 6:35 PM ET.'

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Heads Up: Harry Litman of Bluesky is stating Trump is considering invoking the Insurrection Act. [View all] Joinfortmill 10 hrs ago OP

Not obeying Trump is an insurrection? bucolic_frolic 10 hrs ago #1

Call me crazy, but wouldn't there have to be an actual insurrection going on somewhere? sop 10 hrs ago #2

Trump will--already has--invent an insurection--and most of the media will say ok. riversedge 10 hrs ago #3

When's a technicality ever stopped him? durablend 10 hrs ago #5

That is what he is trying to do now, on the pretense that it is impossible to enforce federal law lostincalifornia 10 hrs ago #4

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