Lars Larson is leaving it to you leave to decide whether Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, a federal lawmaker these last 16 years, is either ignorant about the law, or just lying
Lars Larson
The Northwest Nonsense
When one U.S. Senator from the Northwest tells a pack of lies about the National Guard, I have to call him out.
Jeff Merkley lectured reporters in a press conference, at length, yesterday about the federal laws that restrict use of the military inside the borders of the United States.
With his background working at the Pentagon you’d think Merkley would know the law.
He claims that Title 10 of the U.S. Code only allows the President to use the military in America for two things … invasion or rebellion.
Senator Merkley left out the third thing allowed by Title 10 and it’s significant. “To execute federal laws,” precisely the reason President Trump is sending the Guard to one small neighborhood of S.W. Portland to safeguard ICE offices.
How do I know the law allows that? President Eisenhower used the 101st Airborne in Little Rock, Arkansas. JFK used the National Guard to get James Meredith into his Mississippi University. LBJ used the guard in Alabama.
I guarantee you the racist Democrats running those states did not invite the National Guard. Neither did the illegal alien friendly democrat Tina Kotek.
I’ll leave it to you to decide whether Senator Merkley, a federal lawmaker these last 16 years, is either ignorant about the law, or just lying.
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