cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/38443838
Experts are warning that the Trump administration's ongoing crackdown in Minnesota could quickly get out of hand and could even result in a second US civil war.
Claire Finkelstein, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, wrote in a Wednesday column published by the Guardian that she and her colleagues at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) conducted a tabletop exercise in October 2024 that simulated potential outcomes if a US president were to carry out law enforcement operations similar to the ones being conducted by the Trump administration with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Minnesota.
"In that exercise, a president carried out a highly unpopular law-enforcement operation in Philadelphia and attempted to federalize the Pennsylvania’s National Guard," Finkelstein explained. "When the governor resisted and the guard remained loyal to the state, the president deployed active-duty troops, resulting in an armed conflict between state and federal forces."
3 Comments
jim@lemmy.org · 18 pts · 200d
They are saying that “getting out of hand” is goi g to be any amount of resistance. From the people all the way to the governor. Trump has every intention of deploying troops to control the local government. He may call it Martial Law, he may call it the Insurrection Act, he may call it Freedom Force for all I care. The point is he WILL DO IT and he’ll do it before the midterms.
Stop hoping this will all go away. No one is coming to save you. Resist more now or you won’t be able to later.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 200d
Lol. Voters still expecting the politicians to solve the problem for them.
nocteb@feddit.org · 7 pts · 200d
What is there to simulate? You escalate you move towards it.