Call You This Liberty?
"Once a mask is involved, people understand it as a sign of weakness. That the government has something to hide."
With the proposal to station military personnel in American cities, it seems a rare bipartisan red line has been crossed. Speaking on the “Fifth Column” podcast, right-wing commentator Megyn Kelly asserted that the government cannot send troops to Chicago without an invitation:
“If President Trump did that without an invitation from the Illinois Governor, I would criticize him. I would absolutely go on the air and say you can’t do that… If he sends a bunch of troops to Oregon state to address the crime problem, he and I are going to have a problem. He cannot do that under the Constitution, and I will call him out.”
The Supreme Court of the United States ‘concurred’ with this opinion, choosing to uphold a federal ruling blocking the deployment of National Guard troops. Prior to that verdict, Judge William G. Young of Massachusetts wrote a scathing 161-page opinion condemning the Trump administration for, among other things, empowering masked men to terrorize civilians in clear violation of the Constitution. Of particular concern to this Reagan-appointed judge was the use of masks to conduct legally dubious raids, a particularly unpleasant throwback to the terror of the Reconstruction period. …
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