Constitutional and Legal

It’s Constitutional

Prof. Michael McConnell at the Stanford Law School, a leading constitutional law scholar:

“Whether President Trump's actions are justified as a matter of prudence may well be debated, but the notion that the Constitution's rules of "federalism" are offended by federal intervention absent gubernatorial request is contradicted by the words and history of the Constitution.”

https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/12/prof-michael-mcconnell-on-the-constitution-and-the-presidents-calling-out-the-national-guard/

https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/12/judge-grants-tro-against-president-trumps-federalizing-california-national-guard/

It’s legal

Title 10, U.S. Code, Section 12406

"Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State or Territory by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion."

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-padilla-incident-and-the-greater-peril/

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