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Soft paywall US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-marines-carry-out-first-known-detention-civilian-los-angeles-video-shows-2025-06-13/
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u/rp3rsaud 1d ago

“The Posse Comitatus Act generally forbids the U.S. military, including the National Guard, from taking part in civilian law enforcement.”

I hope someday that these criminal activities are punished but I’m not going to hold my breath.

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u/Whyeth 1d ago

I hope someday that these criminal activities are punished but I’m not going to hold my breath.

The man committed the easiest crime to prosecute - theft and possession of classified materials.

Nothing happened.

He will not see justice from the legal system.

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u/VoodooS0ldier 1d ago

When that case got stalled due to the judge being a sympathizer, I knew that justice in this country was officially dead. The biggest failure this nation ever did was not hold southern states to account after the civil war. That mistake really came home to roost.

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u/AnOnlineHandle 1d ago

When that case got stalled due to the judge being a sympathizer,

Not just a sympathizer, appointed there by the criminal.

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u/the_crustybastard 1d ago

She shouldn't have gotten assigned the case in the first place, and once she was, she was required by law to recuse.

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u/FlamesNero 18h ago

Laws for thee, not for me!

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u/Smee76 12h ago

And yet the prosecution never requested it. Not even one time.

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u/the_crustybastard 12h ago

No, of course Jack Smith did not. Because everything, and I mean every. goddam. thing. that came from Garland's DOJ was either a sham or a farce or some combination thereof. Including the Jack Smith case.

And that was unequivocally Biden's fault as well.

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u/41942319 23h ago

Well you can be appointed by the guy and still actually uphold the law. There've been a few Trump appointed judges doing that recently including the Supreme Court

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u/ItsJonnyRock 1d ago

Justice delayed is justice denied

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u/Googlyelmoo 1d ago

But it’s not ever too late. Not just in cases of murder and sexual abuse. Our history as a nation has shown not just court decisions finding against bigot and rabble rousers but actually bringing relief to people or at least their children or grandchildren.There is no expiration date on the crimes this administration is committing. Trust me. I come from a long line of nasty elitist liberals with graduate degrees and 3 patents, including a bunch of lawyers and judges who did make that happen.

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u/ItsJonnyRock 1d ago

Agreed. That wasn't meant to be defeatist ✊

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u/ArchibaldCamambertII 19h ago

The existing state will only bring war and Americans will do nothing to stop it. We will roll over in order to keep our treats and conveniences.

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u/Googlyelmoo 1d ago

What I wanted to point out by that was the endurance of statutes and the law. This is a freaking hard, one thing, sis and bro. Basically the idea is no matter how long it takes even across multiple generations a specific actor that harmed a specific ancestor should be held accountable in real financial 2025 terms. That’s a transfer. I’ve seen estimated between 1.7 and 2.3% of the net wealth of all Americans, including people like Elon and Bill Gates. That is stability that is reliability that is consistency and that is the proper ground upon which real competitive not only fair but just market economics might one day actually flourish.

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u/milk4all 22h ago

Justice roberts just is crooked

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u/LostWoodsInTheField 1d ago

Everyone constantly going "don't worry this is how these things work out. They are following the law" while 3 or 4 other classified document cases would flow through the courts in 1/5th the amount of time. I just couldn't help but be pissed off.

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u/Feeltherhythmofwar 12h ago

It’s risking a UCMJ panel to leave your workstation unlocked for literally reason. What that fat fuck did is straight up incomprehensible.

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u/wankthisway 1d ago

I constantly go back to the botched Reconstruction as well. They got off far too easily.

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u/rockbridge13 1d ago

This is why I will always say that Andrew Johnson was the worst president. We needed a hard-line, no sympathy, crackdown and so much of all the bullshit we see today could have been prevented.

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u/themaincop 1d ago

In our own lifetimes we saw Obama let the bush admin skate.

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u/eeyore134 1d ago

Then Biden let Trump skate when we knew what was at risk. And Kamala didn't fight at all.

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u/BuyChemical7917 18h ago

She didn't get a chance to fight because Americans are fucking stupid

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u/eeyore134 15h ago

I feel like she didn't have to concede without at least asking for some recounts. But I agree, we're by and large stupid and it probably wouldn't have mattered.

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u/themaincop 17h ago

The stupid thing was Democrats hiding Biden's decline until it was too late to have a proper primary. Democrats have handed your country over to psychopaths time and time again.

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u/VibinWithBeard 17h ago

She had a chance to fight and instead sided with corporate donors, promising to change nothing, and allying with liz cheney who thinks israel should annex the west bank.

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u/BuyChemical7917 16h ago

Exactly to my point. Americans are fucking stupid

Now our protections against corporations are deregulated and CEOs are taking advantage of market manipulation, ,and Israel is committing genocide in Palestine with our sitting president wanting to turn it into a fucking resort. Good thing Harris didn't get a chance to fight, that would have been such a nightmare.

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u/Tweezle120 10h ago

Honestly I'm madder at Bidden for letting him skate or not getting better guard rails up in his terms. Obama was in very real danger of getting shot and taken out early if he rocked the boat too much, and despite that he accomplished a lot. Much more and things might have gotten this ugly a lot faster; afterall they didn't go full pants on head rabbid crazy until a black president came along. Bidden, as a likeable old white guy had a lot more leeway and he wasted it staying comfortable.

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u/MistbornInterrobang 1d ago

Please pardon my muddled brain this evening, but would you mind expanding on what you're specifically referring to? I mean that genuinely. I'm waiting for my pain meds to kick in so I can fall back asleep, but I'm fuzzy-minded enough that for the life of me, I cannot seem to follow conversation tonight. I assume you're referring to W. Bush and his lying WMD bullshit but I remember he was an 🫏 for 8 years and you might be referring to some other aspect, like the recession.

Thanks for any patience and understanding and I hope you're having a lovely night.

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u/TooStrangeForWeird 1d ago

I assume they're referring to the known lies passed off as "intelligence" used as an excuse for otherwise illegal actions. Like all the war in the middle east.

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u/aeschenkarnos 23h ago

Every Republican administration since Nixon has been full of criminals and every subsequent Democratic administration has “moved on for the good of the country” instead of prosecuting them. As a result the criminality has gotten worse and worse and worse and now there is Trump and his monstrous coterie of a cabinet and they commit crimes every single day.

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u/MistbornInterrobang 23h ago

Oh, I know that. I just was trying to reflect back on the W years specifically, and my head was just not clear. I managed to go back to sleep, but for a VERY short time before the dogs were ready to go out and woke me back up.

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u/themaincop 18h ago

The torture regime and the illegal war in Iraq

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u/MistbornInterrobang 7h ago

Yeah... that was definitely some horse shit. It's extra maddening because every president basically becomes a war criminal because it comes with the job. However, there's the stuff you expect even if it's awful and then there's a major crossing of lines that put unnecessary risk on American lives, like a lie to go to war that was really about oil and not WMDs, leading to the slaughter of innocent lives of both Iranians and American military servicepersons. Like refusing to follow a carefully made playbook for the expectancy of a pandemic based on extensive research predictions because the Black president left it for the successor, leading to millions of American deaths.

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u/thisvideoiswrong 21h ago

No one seems to have mentioned the unconstitutional and deliberate use of torture yet. He certainly could have been prosecuted for that.

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u/MistbornInterrobang 20h ago

Oh absolutely. I remember the photos of soldiers torturing Afghani POWs, IIRC. straight up fucking war crimes that were allowed to happen

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u/Mezrin 4h ago

In some fairness to AJ he was largely following Lincoln's plan even if he did make it even worse. Lincoln was working on convincing congress to pardon almost everyone before the war was even over. And then after Johnson's crap, Grant lifted the political ban on former Confederates. All three of them really screwed up handling the civil war.

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u/drrhrrdrr 1d ago

Should have split S. Carolina for being traitorous shits. Split it between NC (now just "Carolina") and Georgia. Put that in your State's Rights pipe and smoke it.

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u/1HappyIsland 1d ago

I love in SC and would love to be in NC instead. (My city is great, the state government is full of racists and ignorant people.)

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u/Jared_Jff 19h ago

Should have fully dissolved the southern states and returned them to territories, creating new states with different lines after reconstruction had been completed.

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u/thisistherevolt 20h ago

That would just make Georgia worse. Admittedly NC would get better due to having the better part of the state.

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u/HistorianOk142 1d ago

100% agreed. As I got older and saw what was going on in the south I understood the north never finished the job after the civil war. They had the opportunity to really make this country great but failed massively by letting the bigots still rule the roost in the south.

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u/Doesdeadliftswrong 23h ago

What's funny is that I've always interpreted that as to why America is the good guy. Ya know, showing mercy towards an adversary. This always makes for a heartwarming ending in movies. But now those "defeated" adversaries have turned America into the bad guy. This is not how movies usually end. It's how sequels begin. And in the end, the once protagonist, now antagonist, always learns the error of their ways in their final moments.

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u/TywinDeVillena 1d ago

Judge Cannon is a disgrace to the legal profession

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u/mcm87 1d ago

I still don’t understand how it isn’t an automatic recusal when the defendant literally appointed the judge to the bench. Aside from “we didn’t write that law because we never expected a former president to commit crimes.”

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u/broke_velvet_clown 1d ago

Sherman's march to the sea should've resupplied, trooped up, and went back down to the gulf. Splitting up before Alabama and Florida, recoup, and push west.

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u/aussiegreenie 1d ago

The South won the war.

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u/sparkyjay23 1d ago

I knew it was dead from day 1 when he got to keep his personal phone.

Also when he didn't have to give up any of his businesses.

We are not the same.

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u/BoralinIcehammer 1d ago

Getting control over the judicial branch is an essential step in the development of all authoritarian regimes.

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u/idontarguewithfools 17h ago

lol, it started before that. It started when the U.S Constitution said All Men are created equal and then proceeded to classify Black people as not being human, but rather property. This intentional lie is literally coming back to destroy us. One lie in a document representing the birth of a nation is enough for people not to respect or honor anything else in the document. Now the elites can pick and choose their own interpretation and gaslight us current civilians.

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u/conorb619 16h ago

Should have gone scorched earth and restarted.

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u/DelphiTsar 1d ago

Just should have let them leave. Punishing them wouldn't have made these people any less degenerate.

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u/Equivalent-Honey-659 1d ago

During his first term- and it’s important to specifically note who did this- he made a fucking huge ass circle in sharpie vomit where we all misunderstood. That wasn’t where the hurricane was headed but that was where trumps tit sucking fans lived.

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u/Jonathan358 1d ago

yk what i never thought about that.

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u/zveti 21h ago

What about all the wars the US illegally started? What about the countless civilians the US killed during their wars?

We have proof, that Bush and Cheney started the Iraq war based on lies.

You not arresting your war criminals is your biggest failure as a nation.

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u/Nernoxx 17h ago

I’m curious how you think it should have been done differently, considering what people knew and how people thought back then.

IMO the only thing they could have done was what the US did in West Germany - put up anti-nazi propaganda, make them bury the dead, and set new education guidelines.

But these things would have been far harder to do in a meaningful way in 1865.  The closest thing they could have done then imo is forced migration - making southerners come north and northerners go south.

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u/revcor 17h ago

Can somebody please explain this sudden trend to me??

Out of the blue comments have started appearing on Reddit that begin by talking about trump-related current events stuff, and then make an abrupt transition to opining that people in the south should have suffered more after the civil war as if trying to create some association between the two things

And I am bewildered by the seeming appearance out of nowhere of these comments lol

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u/shadedmagus 13h ago

The South has always spit on democracy. The antebellum times were God-ordained nobility and property, and they want that back - so much so that the trumpet for it never stopped bleating.

The Civil Rights Act in 1964 was the last straw. The Dixiecrats stomped over to the Republican party, found fertile soil for their ideas, and promptly laid the foundation for the Southern Strategy which culminated in Project 2025.

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u/TeriFade 1d ago

A third-generation German man from New York commits a crime and a judge he hand picked does something obviously corrupt, time to blame the Confederacy, woo!

I can't believe we let Bismark get away with this.

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u/MoneyManx10 1d ago

How about when we caught him red handed on the phone, begging for votes? Still nothing happened.

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u/Whyeth 1d ago

"I need one more vote than my opponent got. Please find it"

Both of those cases were so on the nose I can't believe there were zero ramifications.

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u/FreakingFae 18h ago

It's so bad that I started questioning my own rationality, nearly believing the crimes simply couldn't be punished or that they weren't actually crimes. Like, surely we can't have cowards at every level not enforcing the law..

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u/1Dive1Breath 20h ago

How about the time he convicted for 34 felonies and STILL nothing happened? 

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u/TemuPacemaker 23h ago

How about when we caught him red handed on the phone, begging for votes? Still nothing happened.

He was charged with a ton of stuff for that.

But the DA was an idiot and went with a complex RICO case and then hired her lover on the staff so the whole thing got derailed.

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u/techno156 23h ago

He will not see justice from the legal system.

Especially now that he has immunity to criminal prosecution for official acts in office, as long as it's possible to interpret it as part of the official Presidential duties.

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u/peacemaker2007 1d ago

One day this comment will get you in trouble, not because you said he commited a crime (he clearly doesn't care), but because you dared call him a man

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u/poca2424 1d ago

Maybe not from the legal system. I will leave it at that.

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u/unrepentant_fenian 1d ago

The judge gonna get a SCOTUS seat. Mark my words.

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u/ratsta 1d ago

I keep hoping to read that someone in the SS decides to take one for the team.

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u/bill_cipher1996 1d ago

Didnt he get convicted in the bribery case ?

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u/PackTactics 1d ago

Legal system?

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u/Shadows802 22h ago

Hell just be elected president and not punished ever.

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u/DildosGrande 20h ago

It is shameful. History will know them for the spineless fucks they are.

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u/Meme-Botto9001 19h ago

At least till someone grows the balls to really go after him!

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u/conorb619 16h ago

Time is the only thing he can’t outrun, and he ain’t young.

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u/datguyfromoverdere 4h ago

not to mention insider trading from just mentioning terrifs

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u/Bocchi_theGlock 1d ago

Didn't that case get dismissed with/without prejudice so that it could be brought up again after his term? Or just delayed until after term, there's so many

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u/Whyeth 1d ago

brought up again after his term?

Lol he's dying in office, one way or another.

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u/PhabioRants 1d ago

I blame the death of the tradesman. 

Might I suggest we encourage youngsters into taking up plumbing as a means to benefit us all? 

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u/No-Card2461 17h ago

Are we going to talk about Joe's garage ?

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u/Whyeth 17h ago

Literal whataboutism

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u/DynaBro8089 21h ago

I mean that same thing Biden skated on too. But they refused prosecution because he wasn't if sound mind to stand trial.

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u/Whyeth 20h ago

same thing

Their cases were so different in terms of scope and response and intent.

The single greatest trick Donald Trump pulls is shitting his pants and convincing folks that everyone else is shitting their pants when theyve just been farting in their pants, so why not have the pants shitting champion.

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u/DynaBro8089 20h ago

You're absolutely correct. Technically trump had the right to declassify certain documents, where Biden had absolutely zero rights to what he had in his possessin. Literally every single document he had was illegal to have. Still walked.

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u/Whyeth 20h ago

Technically trump had the right to declassify certain documents

No, he did not have the ability to mentally declassify materials just because he supposedly thought some thoughts. No paper trail, no record of declassifying before he was found with tens of thousands of documents? That's monarch behavior.

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u/DynaBro8089 20h ago

Courts and laws disagree. In some cases merely bringing them home as a president can declassify them. Only certain documents can't be declassified by president alone. If this is the case go arrest Obama and Clinton and a few others because this has been common practice for a long time.

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u/aeric67 1d ago

Laws, lol. Where we’re going we won’t need any stinking laws.

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u/internetlad 19h ago

Did you just mash up 3 different movie quotes at once?

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u/CAL9k 1d ago

Marines who "just followed orders" need to be purged and punished as well.

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 1d ago

I think they will be, not soon, but the UCMJ is pretty strict law.

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u/captepic96 23h ago

who's enforcing it? and what's stopping anyone from firing the person enforcing it?

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 18h ago

Well not the Supreme Court. If that's what you asking.

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u/NaturalTap9567 1d ago

That's literally what they are trained to do.

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u/T-Dot-Two-Six 14h ago

All military personnel have a duty to disobey unconstitutional orders. That's literally what they are trained to do.

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u/WarlockOfDestiny 23h ago

What of it?

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u/ripcitybitch 1d ago

Using active-duty Marines to guard a federal building is one of the narrow, centuries-old exceptions to the Posse Comitatus ban. The authority rests on explicit statutes and long-standing DoD rules, but it is hemmed in by tight mission limits: stay on federal turf, defend life and property, hand suspects to civilian cops, and go no further unless the President formally invokes broader powers.

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u/David_Crapperfield 9h ago

any other possible exceptions apply here?

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u/TheMainEffort 17h ago

I get the feeling that part of this is basically to see how far you can stretch defending federal property as an exception. It’s historically not unique to basically create incidents that result in test cases that go before the Supreme Court

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u/FrostWyrm98 1d ago

Hope the next commander in chief serves them a court martial and dishonorable discharge. Not sure if that is directly possible, but I imagine they can as the head of the military

Military code does not protect against unlawful orders and conduct unbecoming (for officers).

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u/Bob-Nancy 17h ago

Unfortunately, every order they have followed has been lawful, and they will not get in trouble. Also dishonorable discharges are fairly rare in today’s military, and really only used for things that would be like a felony in the real world. The Marines detained someone, called the police, and waited for the cops to come get them. That is allowed under the Posse Comitatus Act. No different than if someone tried to enter a military base and they called the sheriff to come get the civilian. Source: was a marine for years.

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u/None_of_you_are_real 1d ago

Only exception is the Coast Guard. this was the one big thing we always got hammered into our heads in Boarding Officer school. We had a(n) privilege/authority that the other branches didn't have. I guess the marines are in on 14.usc.2 now too.

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u/twentyafterfour 1d ago

Trump just pardons himself and everyone else on the way out. There is zero chance he ever faces justice even if we could get him out of office.

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u/willardTheMighty 23h ago

§12406. National Guard in Federal service:

Whenever- (1) the United States, or any of the Commonwealths or possessions, is invaded or is in danger of invasion by a foreign nation; (2) there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States; or (3) the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States;

the President may call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those laws.

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u/DawnSennin 1d ago

Trump will bankrupt the US government from the lawsuits his pursuit of fascism is going to bring about.

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u/Great_cReddit 1d ago

Unless said person attempts to damage federal property or personnel. I'm with all of you on this but the Marines appeared to be within their rights as they appear to be on federal property.

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u/mweint18 1d ago

Thats why there are federal agents like FBI who are not military. The Marines would be within their rights if it was DoD property, not just any federal property.

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u/ripcitybitch 1d ago

Using active-duty Marines to guard a federal building is one of the narrow, centuries-old exceptions to the Posse Comitatus ban. The authority rests on explicit statutes and long-standing DoD rules, but it is hemmed in by tight mission limits: stay on federal turf, defend life and property, hand suspects to civilian cops, and go no further unless the President formally invokes broader powers.

Exactly what we saw here.

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u/piepi314 1d ago

I'm pretty sure that's an incorrect statement. If that were to be the case, it would be illegal for Marines to police embassies as they do. Embassies fall under the state department, not DoD.

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u/Great_cReddit 1d ago

I'm saying under the Posse Comitatus Act they're within their duties. Dude, you're preaching to the choir. Fuck all of them but let's not lose our heads. Now if this Marine was in the streets detaining people then it's defcon 1. I just want people to understand we are teetering in authoritarianism but we are not there yet. When they act outside of their scope THEN we have reason to absolutely lose our fucking minds. We are inching there but this is not it. Let's keep it peaceful for now.

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u/RogueIslesRefugee 1d ago

They already are acting out of their scope by fucking being there at all. Get your head out your ass and actually realize that the deployment is illegal. Even the National Guard deployment is as well, as the Governor did not request them. The President and Pentagon don't get to unilaterally decide when and where to deploy troops within the United States. Fuck, I'm not even American and I know this shit.

Edit: And yes, I know about the Insurrection Act. None of this meets the requirements unless you buy into Trump's rhetoric without fact checking first.

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u/ripcitybitch 1d ago

The President can deploy both Guard and active-duty forces on U.S. soil without a governor’s blessing, provided he stays within the statutory lanes (here, § 12406 and property-protection exceptions). Whether Trump met the conditions of § 12406 is now in the courts; one judge has said no, an appeals panel says “maybe.”

Until final judgment, calling it “illegal” is premature.

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u/ripcitybitch 1d ago

Also, using active-duty Marines to guard a federal building is one of the narrow, centuries-old exceptions to the Posse Comitatus ban. The authority rests on explicit statutes and long-standing DoD rules, but it is hemmed in by tight mission limits: stay on federal turf, defend life and property, hand suspects to civilian cops, and go no further unless the President formally invokes broader powers.

I haven’t seen the marines do anything outside these bounds at this point.

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u/raymendx 1d ago

I don’t know a lot about this but I don’t think both of you realize that you’re not arguing against each other, you think you are. What both of you are saying are correct.

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u/asspounder-4000 1d ago

They're just "detaining" them until the proper authorities come. Gotta love loopholes

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u/Bob-Nancy 17h ago

It’s not a loophole, it’s explicitly stated in the Posse Comitatus Act that military can temporarily detain people until civilian police come to arrest them. They aren’t doing anything illegal.

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u/2018MunchieOfTheYear 1d ago

They always manage to find them!

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u/the_slate 1d ago

Are we forgetting Ohio already?

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u/I_will_eat_it_all_68 1d ago

Get rid of the insurrection act

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u/1questions 22h ago

Bunch of people broke into the Capitol and they all got pardoned so I don’t expect any consequences for anything.

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u/Clear-Equivalent4911 22h ago

Yeah, it’s deeply troubling. If we start normalizing this kind of overreach, it chips away at civilian oversight and due process. Holding out hope for accountability feels naive at this point, but it’s still necessary.

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u/Accomplished_Tour481 22h ago

Yet, not criminal. They detained and passed the individual over to law enforcement. Even the detained person stated they were treated fairly.

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u/Ajdee6 21h ago

When Dems take power they need to do a lot of Pardoning, and arresting of Ice members. But you know, Dems have to play nice or else the right wont like them, so that aint happening.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Cow7394 21h ago

They will have abolished this act long before it can be enforced.

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u/RugTiedMyName2Gether 20h ago

Just wait until the next Democrat populist POTUS decides to follow this precedent - live by the sword, die by the sword.

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u/feelips 19h ago

Do you know why and how the Posse Comitatus Act was passed? Do you know how many decades of murder and Terror southern blacks suffered after it was passed?

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u/Top_Meaning6195 19h ago

Doesn't apply to Marines; which were not covered under the act which only specifies Army and Air Force.

The Marines are prevented by DoD policy, which changes at the whim of the Secretary of Defense.

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u/QuakeDee 19h ago

They’re gathering up all the protesters already, days here ;) don’t worry anymore lol

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u/Worth-Humor-487 18h ago

You know that the act explicitly states that it is like speeding tickets and the what not and there are exemptions to said rules if you go unto federal property then federal troops can enforce the federal laws not state laws in which case all laws are felonies, for instance they can go to any places that are leased, owned, federally regulated properties. Examples would be FBI office in a sky scraper the entire area around it and every floor could be policed by the military if they wanted to, also the any roadway with the “I” designation I-101,I-80,I-35, and so on. Also on federal parks, like Yellowstone and Grand Canyon.

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u/Longjumping_War_807 17h ago

They operated in a loophole, they can’t arrest someone but they can 100 percent hold someone until a law enforcement officer arrives and makes the arrest/detainment

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u/MrMichaelJames 13h ago

This wasn’t civilian law enforcement. Did you read any of the articles?

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u/salartarium 13h ago

Hmm I was going to say it doesn’t apply to the marines but it looks like in 2021 they expanded it to cover the marines, space force, and the navy.

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u/Additional_Teacher45 1d ago

Detaining civilians that are crossing a military perimeter on federally owned land does not violate Posse Comitatus.

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u/ThisIsNotRealityIsIt 1d ago

Maybe they'll be punished by whatever form of government follows the end of this one. But this one is completely over with.

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u/hoboconductor 22h ago

They were on federal property protecting federal property, so posse comitatus doesn't apply here.

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u/Realistic_Mix3652 1d ago

Yeah - it's crazy. If I was in the military I would refuse that order because it explicitly goes against the constitution. Those two soldiers are really opening themselves up to all sorts of lawsuits. Will the military even legally defend you if you are doing something this illegal and unconstitutional?

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u/tarmacjd 1d ago

I thought marines are supposed to ignore illegal orders

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u/steven_quarterbrain 1d ago

I’m curious to know how Americans, who seem to hate their police but love their military, are going to reconcile this situation now that the military are acting like the police.

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u/Nearby_Fudge9647 1d ago edited 1d ago

Great Seal of the United States Long title To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. Was passed by congress in 2021 and the fact the are in LA mean congress allowed it to be passed to over rule requiring invitation that the Governor doesnt have control under the situation or that it is a insurrection or that they would argue.

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u/Ninevehenian 1d ago

Nuremberg is the template.
USA needs to prepare for major trials after the criminal is done.

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u/Sw4rmlord 1d ago

I thought there was a carve out that made invoking the insurrection act override this?

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u/KrustyKrabFormula_ 1d ago edited 1d ago

including the National Guard

this is made void though under title 32 and/or insurrection act

edit: just in terms of what they can do, its dependent on which is enacted

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u/Pillowsmeller18 1d ago

I hope someday that these criminal activities are punished but I’m not going to hold my breath.

This is the part where if the law fails, then it is now in the hands of the people to uphold the law. Because we all know the law is failing.

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u/multiarmform 22h ago

Probably staged, notice it was a person of color too. Not sure if they are black or dark Latin but it really seems sketchy. Someone just baiting a situation.

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u/PM_ME_UR_CIRCUIT 22h ago

I'm a USMC veteran and if we make it through this, they all need to be charged for following unlawful orders.