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Mike Rogers: “Posse Comitatus [was enacted because] Grant was on the march…”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Michigan

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Secretary Heather Wilson and Representative Mike Rogers on Civil-Military Relations

Published | Video Starts at 17:42

Well, since the. Really probably since the end of this. Since Posse Comitatus and the end of the end of the Civil War. Yeah. And think about why Posse Comitatus [was enacted because] Grant was on the march and had all full authority and they were going into houses and making arrests and they were burning things. Dismissing civilian elected governors in Louisiana and elsewhere and having showdowns with local law enforcement and from a well equipped military. (17:42–17:52)

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Asserts that the Posse Comitatus Act was a response to military overreach during Grant's time.

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