Joe Biden Can—and Should—Take Over the Texas National Guard – If Greg Abbott is going to use his National Guard to flout the Constitution, the president should do as Dwight D. Eisenhower once did and nationalize the state agency entirely.
by Quirkie
Joe Biden Can—and Should—Take Over the Texas National Guard – If Greg Abbott is going to use his National Guard to flout the Constitution, the president should do as Dwight D. Eisenhower once did and nationalize the state agency entirely.
by Quirkie
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The Guard would probably enjoy it so they could be done with this stupid fucking stunt by Abbott.
I… generally agree.
But at the same time, this is such a powder keg of a situation, and exactly what Trump and conservatives are trying to goad him into doing because they want this story to become front and center in national media.
It’s not going to be solved overnight, and far from easy to navigate.
The law has already been settled by the Supreme Court. Abbott is on the wrong side of the law. Biden should federalize the Texas National Guard to send a message to all the GOP Governor’s “standing” with Abbott.
To avoid a civil war he should kick Greg out of office .
Escalating a situation where he’s following the letter of the ruling surely won’t have any unintended consequences /s
He should, pull their fucking card.
This seems like they’re setting up a “gotcha” moment for the election. As much as we know Texas is in the wrong here, the optics of stepping in and removing things will just be fodder for the right wing grist mill and will only serve to poison any remaining moderates and fence sitters.
Perhaps instead forge some really strong agreements and begin implementing some new border policies in the other handful of border states? Something that Dems can point to and say “We are willing to solve the problem. If Texas wants to go it alone and lose federal dollars and support for managing the border, that’s up to them. If they genuinely want help managing immigration, they can reach out to us. They are currently talking out of both sides of their mouth.”
I know its not the best or really an option, but. If Abbot truly believes that there is an invasion happening at the Texas boarder. Have Biden declare martial law in the state of Texas for a period of 6 months, or however long it takes to stop the “invasion”.
I’m willing to bet Biden doesn’t want a civil war.
I like Ike.
Biden should activate them and order them to hang out at their local armory pending further orders. Pay them to sit on their ass and play spades. Pretty sure most of the guardsmen/women would rather be paid to do nothing than to be used to attack other Americans and non violent humans to begin with.
Do this with every single red state that pledges to send their troops to support Abbot. Activate them federally and order them to hang out and standby at their armory.
If any of the troops disobey, well then they can be prosecuted federally for disobeying the Commander In Chief.
Biden tends to not jump the gun on things. I know often people want immediate action, but there might be background stuff happening we aren’t all aware of.
I’ve also seen people saying he shouldn’t be visiting the bridge in Wisconsin and instead dealing with Texas. He can’t drop the issues of the other 49 states for one state that’s always trying to make trouble
Obviously everyone just reads the headlines and not the article, but this article had nothing to do with the title. Like the daily beast is junk but I feel absolutely bait and switched. If you want to know about Ike’s actions to compare to today’s modern conundrum here is a summary.
The Little Rock Crisis happened in Arkansas when the state resisted the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School following the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision. Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from entering the school.
Facing this resistance, President Dwight D. Eisenhower decided to federalize the Arkansas National Guard on September 24, 1957. This action transferred control from the state to the federal government, allowing Eisenhower to deploy federal troops to ensure the integration of the school. The 101st Airborne Division was sent to Little Rock to protect the African American students and enforce the court-ordered desegregation.
All these news articles trying to goad the president(?) to do one thing is a bit suspect. Not like the president will listen to news agencies on policy anyway lol, but it is suspect. Maybe they’re trying to frenzy the American people to force bidens hand? Interesting times indeed.
Texas National Guard and the Texas State Guard are two separate entities. The kid is part of TSG and has been deployed to their border on and off for a couple years now.
Is Abbot also using the TNG for this?
If I were President Biden, I would relocate the B1 Bombers assigned to Dyess AFB, Texas, to Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, for “staging.”
I don’t trust Gov. Abbott
Everyone in the comments suggesting federalizing the national guard when Biden should do as President Eisenhower did before and invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to enable troops to perform domestic law enforcement.
Up the ante. Let’s see Greg Abott defy the army.
He should take over the national guard and stop federal funding to Texas.
Nah, they’re baiting Biden to do something like this to make the story even bigger. Biden is right to deprive it of oxygen.
That would be taking the bait, he should just charge Abbot and his allies with insurrection immediately.
Nationalize the guard and arrest Abbott. Let the GOP cry and scream to their base all they want, the bigger lesson they’ll learn is that democrats will in fact bring the hammer down on them. Letting Abbott get away with this is tantamount to allowing red states legal independence from the union (they’ll still collect our tax dollars though).
Everbody do the Eisenhower!
“Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”
– 4x indicted, 2x impeached, former President Trump, September 2023
*The Largest Mass Deportation in American History*
*As many as 1.3 million people may have been swept up in the Eisenhower-era campaign called ‘Operation Wetback.’*
https://www.history.com/news/operation-wetback-eisenhower-1954-deportation
It would cost of $0, but a significant slap down on the governor
The National Guard is already fully funded by the federal government. Every soldiers pay, equipment and civilians who work for the National Guard in every state and Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands are federal GS employees.
“Federalizing” the National Guard just means to remove the governor as the commander in chief and have the General of the NG report to the Pentagon. The governor doesn’t even have sole commander and chief authority anyway, it’s shared with the Joint Chiefs of the US.
So this action has a cost of $0, but a significant slap down on the governor.
It is way past time for Biden to flex some muscles and make an example out of these worthless terrorists fucks.
The ‘south’ are making the same mistakes all over again and escalating things things to the point where the government can and will take action.
The silver lining if Abbott can get away with flouting the Supreme Court — Roe v Wade will be the law of the land again. Nullification FTW
Aren’t Abbott and Paxton at this point breaking the law? The Supreme Court ruled. This is looking like Waco 2.0.
What can the President actually DO about the border crisis? The core problem is an influx of Latin American and African immigrants that have been displaced by economic and political troubles… many of which the US Congress votes to keep going. There really is a spike if millions of people that just showed up at the border. Under both US law and International Law they have a human right to request asylum.
What can Biden do to improve the processing of inbound migrants? There’s not enough border agents, not enough accommodations to put them in, not enough immigration workers to handle their cases, not enough judges to process the claims.
Contrary to what Red states want, we can’t just start laying traps and shooting people dead at the border like we’re Cold War Berlin. That’s illegal under US and International law, as well as a human rights atrocity.
So how does Biden parlay this intransigence at the border states into making Congress take action that he requires to do his job? That’s what he needs to navigate and he needs to get Democratic Senators and Representatives on board with a solution they can push through Congress.
0% chance of the Feds doing anything here that could even be construed as aggressive, and Abbott knows it, so he’ll be able to provoke and stir the pot all he wants. For Biden, it’ll be legislative compromise or nothing. I imagine there will be some pointless plea for national unity in the SotU, and a little later a compromise bill will be passed that gives Republicans most of what they want. Admin and GOP will both declare victory, but this whole thing amounts to a massive erosion of the federal government’s legitimacy.
I can’t say I fault Biden – he’s sort of backed into a corner and doesn’t want to be the man to start a civil conflict. I’m just not sure it’s avoidable at this point. GOP states already consider themselves at war, and part of the intention of flooding NYC and Chicago with trafficked migrants is to weaken ‘enemy’ states.