The Conversation: President Trump orders Marines to Los Angeles as protests escalate over immigration raids, demonstrating the president’s power to deploy troops on US soil

 

 

It seems that, at least on the West Coast, the news is dominated with the U.S. military forces in Los Angeles.    In an interview in The Conversation (Trump orders Marines to Los Angeles as protests escalate over immigration raids, demonstrating the president’s power to deploy troops on US soil), Professor William C. Banks identifies some of the legal issues raised by the President’s actions.  He says that, although U.S. troops may be used inside the country, it is an extraordinary to deploy them domestically.

KJ