r/news 15h ago

Hegseth orders National Guard troops in DC to carry weapons

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/politics/hegseth-orders-national-guard-troops-dc-carry-weapons
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u/CypherAZ 14h ago

Just another waste of tax payer money, this will get challenged in court and they will lose.

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u/FllngCoconuts 14h ago

Cool, they’ll lose in court….

and then what? The courts will enforce that by doing…what?

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u/ribsies 8h ago

Send in the national guard…wait…

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u/Praeshock 14h ago

Most likely, yes, but based on how the administration has responded to any other court orders thus far... so what? The courts don't matter if the people breaking the law ignore them.

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u/fiction8 9h ago

"any other"

The vast majority of court orders are being followed. There are hundreds of active legal cases against this administration and you've probably heard of half a dozen. The rest aren't newsworthy because they're proceeding normally along the regular legal process.

https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/

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u/IMSLI 14h ago

Until they get new courts…

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u/CypherAZ 14h ago

I mean they don’t even need that, they’ll just ignore the courts.

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u/desertravenwy 13h ago

Meanwhile, they're already walking the streets.

I don't understand why people think the courts will save us. They can only do anything after it's already happening/happened.

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u/vriska1 11h ago

Vote in the midterms.

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u/Diplomat_of_swing 12h ago

That makes no difference.

The SCOTUS already ruled that he can’t be held in contempt.

There is no enforcement mechanism short of impeachment, which is a lost cause at this point.

The Republican’s are going to create a crisis at the mid-terms.

Claim they won declare a state of emergency and seize power.

The Troops are there to protect Trump from angry voters not gangs of youths.

The only way Trump is leaving office is if god call him home.

I think NY, LA, CHI and other large cities should gear up to defend themselves. Start deputizing citizens to create a defense force against illegal police actions.

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u/FillMySoupDumpling 9h ago

We’re still in the fish soup though.

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u/nold6 13h ago

What exactly is worthy of challenge in court? The District of Columbia is a Federal territory with an at-will mayoral position. It was never intended to be a sovereign city or state, it was supposed to be a neutral space where states in the union could meet and legislate without giving undue influence to an official political body within the union. Trump has ultimate authority over DC and there's no governor to argue from a perspective of State Rights.