Grateful to The New York Times
@adamliptak.bsky.social
for quoting from my blog post with John Dehn on the key precedent behind the President’s decision to deploy the National Guard on America’s streets www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Check me out on the American Prestige Podcast. We talk about about Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act., the president’s power to federalize the National Guard, the limits of judicial deference

open.spotify.com/episode/2gxT...

“In the past, military deployments have been forgotten because the wave of unrest broke gently. This time, however, the wave may crash violently,” Joshua Braver writes:

Between 1957 and 1968, there were eight deployments of active-duty troops on U.S. soil. Only one ended in a civilian death.

Today, the guardrails keeping those deployments nonlethal are eroding as I explain in the Atlantic. 🧵

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

See my piece at NyTimes arguing that military officers on the ground in Los Angeles are in an impossible bind. They may have to decide whether to disobey lawful but unethical orders, unethical in the sense that it violates their professional code.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

Congrats to @joshuabraver.bsky.social @law.wisc.edu for making the home page of @nytimes.com for posing a question tied to this week’s highest profile national story — www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...