And then it goes to SCOTUS, who will rule for the President. And at that point we are in the realm of "He has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"
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I think it would come down to "who will the Guard obey?" in a crunch - and would use of out-of-state Guards make for the possibility of a stand-off? We're some way beyond the normal "obeying the black letter and the courts", so really, it's all in the wind.
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Yes, and specifically (IMO) "who will the Guard Commander obey?". I (over-optimistically?) expect the rest of the chain of command to follow. And I can definitely see Trump sending Guard units from a compliant Red state into a Blue state city, potentially facing off local guard units.
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And so begins the second Civil War. And this time, the loser has to keep the South. BTW, how insane is this timeline that we're even talking about such possibilities?
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