Adam Schiff: “The Constitution does not permit the President to call out…”

“He has also relied sort of generically on his Article 2 power as commander in Chief. Again, there are laws and The Constitution does not permit the President to call out the military against citizens of the United States for law enforcement purposes. They keep throwing around the term insurrection because they may want to rely on the Insurrection act. But they hope these highly charged terms like rebellion, like insurrection, can put some kind of legal gloss on the lawlessness of their actions.” (00:49–01:02)

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