(09-02-2020, 09:24 PM)rollerjag Wrote:

(09-02-2020, 08:49 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Yes, here in America we have city law enforcement, county law enforcement, state law enforcement, and federal law enforcement, each of which is tasked with specific duties and jurisdictions. What Trump can and cannot do is spelled out in federal law, and there are only a few specific instances where he can intervene without the express invitation of the lower jurisdictions. He can, for instance, activate the Insurrection Act, but it has specific steps he has to follow before he can just send in the troops. Likewise, as was done in Portland, he can order federal law enforcement to protect federal facilities within a local jurisdiction, but he can't just send them in to act as local law enforcement until such time as he applies the IA. Of course if he DOES choose to use the IA to quell this civil unrest then dumb libbies and foreign know nothings will start shrieking about how he is doing something unfair because he just wants to be a mean old dictator, even though luminaries like Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, Ike, and Kennedy all used the Act at one time or another.  

So yeah, he can do it, but it's not a good idea until really necessary and either way he gets criticized.

Trump has been President since January 20, 2017. This is Trump's America. He owns it. There are other ways to affect change, he has chosen to pick sides and inflame passions.

Like he said, only he can fix it. And he's failed, miserable.