{"id":30955,"date":"2024-08-15T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30955"},"modified":"2024-08-15T21:07:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T02:07:21","slug":"democratic-lawmakers-urge-the-pentagon-to-keep-the-military-out-of-us-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30955","title":{"rendered":"Democratic lawmakers urge the Pentagon to keep the military out of US law enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Democratic Reps. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, sent the letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and other top&nbsp;military officials, urging them to&nbsp;serve as \u201cguardrails against using the military in domestic affairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Two Democratic lawmakers on Thursday urged the Pentagon to help the United States military reject improper political influence in the 2024 presidential election and other domestic affairs this election cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Former President Donald Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4830151-lawmakers-pentagon-officials-military-election\/\"><u>has said he would potentially<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;send military forces to the southern border in order to help with the country&#8217;s current immigration crisis, according to The Hill, though he admitted that he would send the National Guard first. The two lawmakers also claimed that the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Project 2025 included plans to &#8220;invoke the Insurrection Act.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Democratic Reps. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/slotkin.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/slotkin.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/Aug 14 - Letter to SecDef CJCS on 2025 POTUS Military Authorities.pdf\"><u>sent the letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin\u2002<\/u><\/a>and other top&nbsp;military officials, urging them to&nbsp;serve as \u201cguardrails against using the military in domestic affairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThere is no greater responsibility than the oath of office we swear to the Constitution,&#8221; Sherrill&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/slotkin.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/slotkin-sherrill-ask-senior-leaders-reinforce-limits-militarys-role-domestic\"><u>said in a statement.<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cDonald Trump betrayed that oath time and again, particularly on January 6 when he jeopardized the peaceful transfer of power.&nbsp;As we prepare for another presidential election, we are calling on our military leaders to reject improper political influence and to take necessary steps to preserve the bedrock foundation of our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The lawmakers specifically asked the Pentagon to&nbsp;reaffirm that federal law bans the military from taking part in domestic law enforcement, and that deploying troops under the Insurrection Act is illegal except in very specific circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The nonpartisan tradition of military service and the constitutional guardrails that prevent our military from becoming a domestic police force, are essential to maintaining our democracy,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote in the letter. &#8220;We are relying on you to preserve the system that our Founding Fathers designed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The lawmakers requested the leaders respond to their letter by Aug. 31.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/congress\/democratic-lawmakers-urge-pentagon-keep-military-out-2024-election\">justthenews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Reps. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, sent the letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and other top&nbsp;military officials, urging them to&nbsp;serve as \u201cguardrails against using the military in domestic affairs.&#8221; Two Democratic lawmakers on Thursday urged the Pentagon to help the United States military reject improper political influence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1236,2792,1156,5222,6780],"class_list":["post-30955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-democrats","tag-law-enforcement","tag-military","tag-prohibition","tag-the-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30957,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30955\/revisions\/30957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}