To that end, Miller appears to want Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. Recently, Miller was asked directly if he’s discussed the idea with Trump, and he evaded the question. It’s likely that Miller, a master manipulator lurking furtively behind the despot’s throne, frequently uses the word “insurrection” about Trump’s opponents to lodge it deep in Trump’s brainstem and make invocation of the Act more likely.
Of course he wants him to invoke the insurrection act. So much of this has been in the making for a very long time. Not just the plans written in Project 2025, via very subtle actions of GOP at state and local levels before Trump was even elected for a second term. Elected officials have been working together to have everything in place necessary to overthrow democracy, and barely anyone noticed.
Ex: In April of 2024, the current AG of TN quietly removed a section of the state constitution that would have made Trump sending troops to crack down on crime in September of 2025, a violation. Nobody noticed he removed this until a few days before the guard arrived.
During a press conference, the TN AG gaslit his own state by pretending it was crazy to suggest that he somehow did so because he knew it would help Trump 6 months before he was elected. It also turns out this AG belongs to an organization that has churned out many of Trump’s loyal servants (including Pam Bondi and Jeff Landry), the Republican Attorney Generals of America (RAGA).
Her Republican colleague, Jim Walsh, dismissed her concerns as performative and simply a swipe at Donald Trump. What’s really odd, is that TX has its own legislation protecting it from invasion from other states national guard. So it seems a little odd that Walsh would go out of his way to frame and dismiss this legislation as partisan theatrics:
The legislation is about maintaining the state’s autonomy and authority, Mena, a Democrat, told her colleagues during last week’s hearing. “Without this bill, there’s nothing on the books to prevent this.”
Its not a wild conspiracy theory to point out that large numbers of the GOP (and I suspect some Democrats, including one mentioned in this article) have been part of a long standing plan to overthrow democracy. You can’t prove intent based on circumstance, but it’s naive to believe they were unaware of what they were doing. That willingness to believe these people are now or have ever been acting in good faith is what they’re relying on to destroy us.
Alarm bells are being rung in the Capitol over the withdrawal of a legal opinion from 2021 that suggests use of the National Guard in Tennessee for crime-fighting would violate the Tennessee Constitution.
The opinion, written by former Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery, was withdrawn April 19, 2024, without much, if any, public notice.
At a Sept. 30 news conference, Tennessee Sen. Jeff Yarbro, D-Nashville, said the withdrawn opinion suggests the upcoming deployment of National Guard troops to Memphis this week would be unconstitutional.
“That is not just reckless, but seemingly lawless,” Yarbro said about the deployment of troops to Memphis.
Yarbro called withdrawing the opinion “scrubbing the historical record.”
Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti told The Tennessean the opinion was withdrawn “because it did not accurately reflect the state of the law.” The attorney general’s office withdraws opinions when it determines the state of the law has changed or the analysis was incorrect, Skrmetti said.
Of course he wants him to invoke the insurrection act. So much of this has been in the making for a very long time. Not just the plans written in Project 2025, via very subtle actions of GOP at state and local levels before Trump was even elected for a second term. Elected officials have been working together to have everything in place necessary to overthrow democracy, and barely anyone noticed.
Ex: In April of 2024, the current AG of TN quietly removed a section of the state constitution that would have made Trump sending troops to crack down on crime in September of 2025, a violation. Nobody noticed he removed this until a few days before the guard arrived.
During a press conference, the TN AG gaslit his own state by pretending it was crazy to suggest that he somehow did so because he knew it would help Trump 6 months before he was elected. It also turns out this AG belongs to an organization that has churned out many of Trump’s loyal servants (including Pam Bondi and Jeff Landry), the Republican Attorney Generals of America (RAGA).
In January, a democratic Congress woman from Washington proposed legislation that would prevent governors of red states from sending their National guard to Washington to invade.
Her Republican colleague, Jim Walsh, dismissed her concerns as performative and simply a swipe at Donald Trump. What’s really odd, is that TX has its own legislation protecting it from invasion from other states national guard. So it seems a little odd that Walsh would go out of his way to frame and dismiss this legislation as partisan theatrics:
Its not a wild conspiracy theory to point out that large numbers of the GOP (and I suspect some Democrats, including one mentioned in this article) have been part of a long standing plan to overthrow democracy. You can’t prove intent based on circumstance, but it’s naive to believe they were unaware of what they were doing. That willingness to believe these people are now or have ever been acting in good faith is what they’re relying on to destroy us.
How does an AG have the power to change a state’s constitution?
AG withdrew legal opinion in 2024 suggesting National Guard for TN policing unconstitutional
Alarm bells are being rung in the Capitol over the withdrawal of a legal opinion from 2021 that suggests use of the National Guard in Tennessee for crime-fighting would violate the Tennessee Constitution.
The opinion, written by former Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery, was withdrawn April 19, 2024, without much, if any, public notice.
At a Sept. 30 news conference, Tennessee Sen. Jeff Yarbro, D-Nashville, said the withdrawn opinion suggests the upcoming deployment of National Guard troops to Memphis this week would be unconstitutional.
“That is not just reckless, but seemingly lawless,” Yarbro said about the deployment of troops to Memphis.
Yarbro called withdrawing the opinion “scrubbing the historical record.”
Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti told The Tennessean the opinion was withdrawn “because it did not accurately reflect the state of the law.” The attorney general’s office withdraws opinions when it determines the state of the law has changed or the analysis was incorrect, Skrmetti said.