Gavin Newsom: “The issue of posse comitatus, for those that don't know, is…”

“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. So there's a scenario, is there not, where even if the courts adjudicate in favor of what we believe are these fundamental constitutional principles, the president himself can simply invoke the Insurrection Act.” (31:28–31:46)

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