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The reason is Posse Comitatus. It's in place because enough people were fed up with federal troops being used to impose "law." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po

• JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  It's also, notably, a legacy of Reconstruction. Put another way, we're dismantling infrastructure built to prevent civil war.
  • leereeves 1y ago
    > a legacy of Reconstruction Quite the opposite. It was passed in 1878 because of the backlash against Reconstruction, shortly after federal troops were withdrawn from the South in 1877, and was intended to prevent something like Reconstruction from happening again.
    • JumpCrisscross 1y ago
      > It was passed in 1878 because of the backlash against Reconstruction, shortly after federal troops were withdrawn from the South in 1877, and was intended to prevent Reconstruction from happening again You're right. Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest it was a product of Reconstruction. It was absolutely part of the process of post-civil war renormalisation.
• twic 1y ago
  I love that the navy wasn't covered until 2021. So although the president can't send in the troops, Trident is a-ok!