This guy, y’all. What a sad excuse for a man he is. He won’t agree to any court orders regarding the Marines in LA. It would have to go all the way up to the Supreme Court before he would agree. That’s so wrong in so many ways. From Politico:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that he would obey a Supreme Court order to remove troops from Los Angeles but declined to show similar deference to other courts considering the issue.
The Pentagon chief initially deflected when asked at a House Armed Services Committee hearing whether he would abide by a court’s decision if it determined President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and Marines was unlawful.
“What I can say is we should not have local judges determining foreign policy or national security policy for the country,” Hegseth said. But the Defense secretary later clarified that he would obey a decision from the high court. “We’re not here to defy a Supreme Court ruling,” he said.
Excuse me? Lower courts don’t count? They damn well should, idiot! They uphold the law. He is directed to obey the law, but now he won’t? Hoooo boy, what a can of worms THAT opens. Last I knew, only tRump thought he was above the law, especially after those Supreme Court cases that he lost, lost, lost. Remember how furious he was? And he couldn’t backtalk those cases. The law is the law.
I’m not sure the Tangerine Palpatine is going to obey the law much longer. Then, we’re all screwed. The people in the sorry group of his cabinet will do what HE says. Is the country ready for martial law? I’m pretty sure we aren’t. I would have … difficulties with that.
The comments mirror other officials who have criticized court rulings that go against the Trump administration, often directing withering criticism at lower-court judges while vowing deference to the justices.
Trump has ordered the Pentagon to deploy 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel in response to mass deportation protests. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has said the troops are not necessary, is suing to remove them.
The Trump administration, in a filing Wednesday, urged a federal judge to reject the lawsuit, calling it a “crass political stunt.”
Stunt? Then what’s his big, beautiful parade going to be called? *That* is a political stunt. The stunt that’s going to cost the taxpayers, not tRump. Yes, I mentioned that in a recent column, but I’m saying it again. It’s going to cost *us*, and the money could have been used to greater effect somewhere else.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) repeatedly pressed Hegseth on whether he would follow a court ruling. “You’re not willing to say you would respect those decisions?” Khanna asked.
Hegseth replied: “What I’m saying is local district judges shouldn’t make foreign policy.”
Newsom reposted a video of the exchange on the social media platform X. “This is not normal,” he said.
No, it isn’t normal. Citizens of the United States are to follow the law. It certainly seems that he won’t, which means he’s going to do what he d*mn well pleases, WHEN he d*mn well pleases. That’s a giant cause for concern. And he’s head of the Department of Defense? Good gods, there’s no telling what he might have our armed forces do.
The Defense secretary, in separate congressional testimony on Wednesday, suggested the administration could deploy troops elsewhere to assist in roundups and deportations. At that hearing, he wasn’t able to immediately cite the legal justification for the deployments.
Apparently, he’s a prince who can do anything he wants to. Doesn’t that make you feel so much safer now? Heh. It does NOT make me feel safer. It *worries* me. We have an armed forces base just a few miles from our apartment. That doesn’t make me feel any safer, either. This is not going to turn out well. Thanks for sticking with me!
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“Hegseth replied: “What I’m saying is local district judges shouldn’t make foreign policy.” ”
Foreign policy?
Isn’t this Los Angeles, the nation’s largest city by area?
How is it foreign policy?
It’s policing of local laws.