The court battle over President Trump's deployment of the California National Guard and the Marines to provide extra security during the riots and rebellion in the Los Angeles area is ongoing. Now, though, the arguing has spread to the United States Senate, where Senate Democrats are demanding that the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chair, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) drag Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem into hearings.
There was a sternly worded letter involved.
Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee want their chair, Sen. Rand Paul, to hold a hearing on the Trump administration’s handling of the Los Angeles demonstrations against federal immigration enforcement and deportation activities.
In a new letter obtained by POLITICO, the Democrats are calling on the Kentucky Republican to request that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testify before lawmakers regarding the administration’s response to the ongoing protests in the L.A. area. President Donald Trump greeted the crowds protesting his immigration policies by ordering the deployment of National Guard troops and Marines — with California Gov. Gavin Newsom calling the use of military force “purposefully inflammatory” and the California state government quick to file a legal challenge.
Now that may be sternly worded, but it's also a load of codswallop. One of the primary purposes of the National Guard is dealing with civil unrest, a task for which every member is trained. We might also note that the streets of this major American city are literally ablaze, and the deployment of the National Guard is inflammatory? You want to know what's inflammatory? Setting cars on fire and throwing rocks at cops.
These Democrats, in this sternly worded letter, are revealing themselves to be the basest sort of blind ideologues.
“[T]he President has harmed public safety by federalizing a state’s National Guard against the wishes of the governor and sending them into a city whose law enforcement is already dealing with the protests,” the Democratic senators wrote to Paul. “We therefore call on you to immediately hold an oversight hearing with Administration officials … to provide answers regarding the administration’s dangerous and intentionally provocative actions.”
The governor in question, the impeccably coiffed Governor Gavin Newsom, has demonstrated very plainly that he's not up to the task. Ditto for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. If we waited for them to deal with the protests riots, the whole city would burn down.
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The president's actions aren't anywhere near as dangerous as letting millions of illegal aliens flood into the country, unscreened, unvetted, and unknown. The president's actions aren't anywhere near as dangerous as rioting, looting, and burning cars. The president's actions aren't anywhere near as dangerous as having elected officials stand aside, taking little or no action as rioting, looting, and burning cars happen on the streets of a major American city.
Government exists for one reason above all others: To protect the liberty and property of the citizens. Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass have utterly failed in this task; someone clearly had to take up the slack. President Trump has done so. Unfortunately, inaction on the part of Democrats made it necessary, but that's where we are; and were I Senator Paul, I would have some very uncomfortable suggestions on where these Democrats could place their sternly worded letter.
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