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Important reminder of how this works:

* The guard are MN residence and under control of the governor.

* He cannot deploy them to block ICE on legitimate federal business.

* He can require them to be observers and peacekeepers aimed at de-escalation on issues like today’s shooting.

* He can have them support local PD in monitoring ICE.

* The police with NG support can arrest ICE for any illegal actions.

* The NG can intervene, including by force, at any clearly illegal violent action done by ICE.

* Their primary mission would be observe, de-escalate, protect Minnesotans.

* The President will likely try to nationalize them at some point.

* Under the law nationalizing the NG requires that the State has failed to respond to the matter. So the NG cannot be nationalized when currently on a mission for the *same* purpose at the State level.

* The Insurrection Act claim will also require judicial overview and Congressional consultations which likely get struck down.

* This will get tenuous, but the National Guard can be held accountable at the state level, and are citizens of that state and so have a vested interest in pushing back against ICE!

Liberty in the care of Amy Klobuchar. Well that's reassuring.

If they don't do a coordinated general strike nationwide they are done. The reason why he is doing this in the dead of winter is to keep the reaction muted. If this becomes normal they will never go back.