ID-Bill to overturn Posse Comitatus to fight "resistance to process of this state"

[DamianTV]

Offensive to whom?

Nazis?

Or retards?

 

[James Madison]

I with you, so much for my semi-dream of moving to Idaho for a relatively smaller government.

Northern Idaho is still very libertarian (Ron carried most counties in the northern panhandle by a wide margin). Idaho county and all points north are good.

 

[Origanalist]

Northern Idaho is still very libertarian (Ron carried most counties in the northern panhandle by a wide margin). Idaho county and all points north are good.

Yes, Northern Idaho, specifically the Sand Point area is what I had in mind.

 

[Aratus]

THIS THREAD IS FROM 2014...

Aren't National Guard part of DHS and under command of the governor? I thought that was the way Eisenhower sidestepped Posse Commitus when he did the forced integration. Also I remember bush saying he needed the military for Katrina so they might have changed it then.

The (federal) Posse Comitatus Act does not forbid National Guard elements from engaging in domestic law enforcement activities within their "home" states - rather, it applies to the use of federal armed forces in domestic law enforcement. (It may also deal with the relationship between the federal government and the various state National Guards - or maybe that's something else ... I don't recall at the moment.)

But whether and to what extent the National Guard may be used for such purposes within a given state is up to that state. Perhaps Idaho has some state-level version of Posse Comitatus that is being amended here? As bad as this BS is, I don't see what it has to do with (federal) Posse Comitatus.

Exactly how close is the caravan?