Gavin Newsom: “One of the things that we have been blessed by here in the…”

“But when we go up to the Supreme Court, if that's where this is headed, that, that is concerning. Are you both concerned about the President's willingness to openly discuss the Insurrection Act? Because One of the things that we have been blessed by here in the state of California are a number of lower court decisions, including Justice Breyer on the question of posse comitatus. And the issue of posse comitatus, for those that don't know, is not a complicated one. It's fundamentally about not allowing the federal military to, to be used for domestic policing, period, full stop, unless the President invokes the Insurrection Act.” (31:12–31:27)

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