‘military beat’ for the
Washington Post:
BREAKING: The entire D.C. National Guard will be activated today, putting about 1,100 guardsmen on duty tonight, defense official tells me. Comes after breach of Capitol by pro-Trump protesters.
So, unarmed protesters in the streets last summer get the military and tear gas and men in unmarked outfits armed to the teeth, but an invasion of the Capitol gets sorry, we re not home, please leave a message. https://t.co/a123O0U2Zj
The D.C. National Guard is not controlled by the Mayor; it’s controlled by the President.
The lack of a military response right now is a failure by the federal government to respond to an assault on one of its most important institutions engaging in its most important duty.
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INTRODUCTION
States’ arguments that Texas fails to state a claim
because the challenged actions did not change or
violate state election statutes. In an effort to obfuscate
their unconstitutional abrogation of election security
measures in the name of COVID-19, Defendant States
tack between misstating the facts pled in the
Complaint and arguing that this Court can ignore the express language in those statutes. Neither approach
has merit.
against Texas’s standing and purportedly alternate
remedies to this action in its separate reply in support
of the motion for interim relief.
President Donald Trump added a factually inaccurate statement about past results in Florida and Ohio to the pile of false claims and wild theories about the 2020 election.