# Is the President calling out the National Guard constitutional? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 9, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-president-calling-out-the-national-guard-constitutional/1019369 "2025-06-09T14:35:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-president-calling-out-the-national-guard-constitutional/1019369/41 "2025-09-08T00:59:08Z")
But will there be actual legal consequences that he might give a shit about? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-president-calling-out-the-national-guard-constitutional/1019369/42 "2025-09-08T04:18:09Z")
Not likely to be honest. The GOP controlled Congress won’t do anything no matter what happens. I doubt there would be enough voters turning out in the midterms to change control of either chamber of Congress to such a degree that any action will ever be taken. Hogseth and company would be likely to clamp down harder and start disappearing anyone who protests. So it’s a win all the way down for the Orange Monster. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-president-calling-out-the-national-guard-constitutional/1019369/43 "2025-09-08T04:42:48Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > They already got that with the killing of the congressional intern. > > Not really big enough to justify bringing out the Marines. It was hard enough to justify sending in troops to downtown LA for what amounted to a two square block protest with some criminal vandalism and burning a few cars, which is basically what happens anytime a sportsball team wins a championship or pennant in Los Angeles. That’s all the current president needed to justify calling out the National Guard in DC. Of course it’s diametrically opposed to his and other republicans’ talking points about that very same authority way back on January 6, 2021. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-president-calling-out-the-national-guard-constitutional/1019369/44 "2025-09-08T19:46:13Z")
That is the problem, isn’t it? Federal judges have little recourse to force Presidents to do anything. I believe the actual remedy is for Congress to rein in the President through appropriate legislation and the threat of impeachment. But they’re running scared of MAGA/Trump, so they’re basically abrogating their responsibility in this regard and letting him do what he wants. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-president-calling-out-the-national-guard-constitutional/1019369/45 "2025-09-08T20:11:20Z")
> [@bump](#): > > But they’re running scared of MAGA/Trump, so they’re basically abrogating their responsibility in this regard and letting him do what he wants. Oh, they’ve doing more than just “abrogating their responsibility”. In passing _House Constitutional Resolution 14_ (I will not refer to it by the demagogic title) into law, they’ve enabled Trump’s autocratic ambitions in numerous ways and funded a paramilitary organization outside of the scope of the Department of Defense and the restrictions of the Posse Comitatus Act. They are cowardly enablers and many of them willingly complicit collaborators with a nascent fascist regime. Stranger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-president-calling-out-the-national-guard-constitutional/1019369.md?page=2)