Just in time for November. It would appear the deep state has some tricks planned that they estimate some won't agree with.

I find it shady AF that our gov't is allowed to "farm out" legal support to anyone or any group. These external groups exert political pressure/influence on Congress and POTUS. In my opinion, this is the work our members of congress should be doing instead of being force fed by external entities.

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“Revising the Insurrection Act in these respects will address the major concerns with the statute,” Goldsmith said in a news release by The American Law Institute. “The principles suggest specific, common-sense reforms and are designed to allow members of both parties to find common ground. At the same time, these modest and reasonable changes would be historic — providing necessary checks and balances where none currently exist before they are ever needed.”

“There is agreement on both sides of the aisle that the Insurrection Act gives any president too much unchecked power,” he added. “The Principles for Insurrection Act Reform proposes a set of core standards to guide constitutionally sound, bipartisan reform that aims to address the Act’s flaws while reflecting the need for U.S. armed forces to remain available in extreme cases to respond to domestic threats.”

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On Monday, a bipartisan group called by the American Law Institute and led by former Obama White House Counsel Bob Bauer and former George W. Bush administration Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith released a set of “Principles for Insurrection Act Reform.”

The panel of legal experts recommended changes to the federal law that allows the president to deploy troops on U.S. soil “in cases of insurrections.”

The principles propose that the Insurrection Act be revised to clarify that the president cannot deploy military troops until “the violence [is] such that it overwhelms the capacity of federal, state, and local authorities to protect public safety and security.”

It also recommends Congress to enact reporting and consultation procedures, as well as time limits, for presidential deployments under the act, such as:

Requiring the president to report to Congress, within 24 hours of deployment, on the need to invoke the Insurrection Act and on consultations held with state authorities.
Limiting the president’s authority to deploy troops under the act to a maximum of 30 days absent renewed congressional authorization.
Establishing a fast-track procedure for Congress to vote on renewal of presidential authority under the act.
Prior contact with the governor is required before sending soldiers into any state.

The Brookings Institute in 2022 posted a lengthy critique of the Insurrection Act and why it poses a threat to Americans.

The Insurrection Act needs a major overhaul. Originally enacted in 1792, the law grants the president the authority to deploy the U.S. military domestically and use it against Americans under certain conditions. While there are rare circumstances in which such authority might be necessary, the law, which has not been meaningfully updated in over 150 years, is dangerously overbroad and ripe for abuse.

The left-wing think tank defines the authority of the Insurrection Act in a time of “crisis.”

Invoking the Insurrection Act temporarily suspends the Posse Comitatus rule and allows the president to deploy the military to assist civilian authorities with law enforcement. That might involve soldiers doing anything from enforcing a federal court order to suppressing an uprising against the government. Of course, not every domestic use of the military involves law enforcement activity. Other laws, such as the Stafford Act, allow the military to be used to respond to natural disasters, public health crises, and other similar events without waiving the restrictions of the Posse Comitatus Act.

In theory, the Insurrection Act should be used only in a crisis that is truly beyond the capacity of civilian authorities to manage. However, the Insurrection Act fails to adequately define or limit when it may be used and instead gives the president significant power to decide when and where to deploy U.S. military forces domestically.

The think tank states that “Section 251 allows the president to deploy troops if a state’s legislature (or governor if the legislature is unavailable) requests federal aid to suppress an insurrection in that state. This provision is the oldest part of the law, and the one that has most often been invoked.”

And there is also Section 252, which permits deployment in order to “enforce the laws” of the United States or to “suppress rebellion” whenever “unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion” make it “impracticable” to enforce federal law in that state by the “ordinary course of judicial proceedings.”

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