• @Zaktor
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    75 months ago

    They should react, because ignoring this line-toeing is what causes them to just be bolder next time. Remember when all the Republican calls for banning abortion were just rabble rousing for political benefit and they didn’t really mean it? Trump telling his followers to fight? Republicans saying trans people are molesting kids?

    Ignoring their provocation isn’t winning 5D chess, it’s paving the way to actual violence. If a state says they’re going to block the federal government and calls for aligned states to send troops to support them, you need to shut that shit down.

    • @APassenger@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      It’s going through the courts and I’m sure simply escalating has its own constitutional issue.

      The military is not a police force. You are asking that we activate the thing Trump wants to use for authoritarian rule.

      I’d rather have the all the guardsman found in contempt and then issued arrest warrants that are enforced. That’s one example of what could happen.

      • @Zaktor
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        25 months ago

        This isn’t a question of law. The law is entirely clear that federal agents (a police force) have dominion over the border. They shouldn’t have gone through the courts in the first place, they should have simply showed up with a bunch of federal agents and started arresting anyone who stopped them. There’s nothing unclear about what the constitution says happens here. You don’t need a court to say blocking a federal agent from doing their job is illegal.

        They don’t need to bring in the military unless armed agents of Texas start resisting, in which case it is insurrection and the military is the right tool for the job. This idea that maybe we should just let Texas play at rebellion for 9 months until the court tells them (again) that federal supremacy is real is the ridiculous.