# Trump now wants to use military force to take California **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [June 8, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-now-wants-to-use-military-force-to-take-california/1019341 "2025-06-08T18:36:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-now-wants-to-use-military-force-to-take-california/1019341/7 "2025-06-08T20:06:46Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > The President does, in fact, have the authority to call up the National Guard and other state militia per [10 U.S. Code § 252 - Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/252) and [10 U.S. Code § 253 - Interference with State and Federal law](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/253). The governor of the pertinent state ostensibly still has control over these forces; however per [10 U.S. Code § 254 - Proclamation to disperse](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/254): How does the [Posse Comitatus Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act) figure in to all of this? (really asking) > The **Posse Comitatus Act** is a [United States federal law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_law) ([18 U.S.C.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_18_of_the_United_States_Code) [§ 1385](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1385), original at 20 [Stat.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large) [152](https://legislink.org/us/stat-20-152)) signed on June 18, 1878, by [President](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States) [Rutherford B. Hayes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes) that limits the powers of the [federal government](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States) in the use of [federal military](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces) personnel to enforce [domestic policies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_policy) within the [United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States). Congress passed the Act as an amendment to an army [appropriation bill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriations_bill_(United_States)) following the end of [Reconstruction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era_of_the_United_States) and updated it in 1956, 1981 and 2021. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-now-wants-to-use-military-force-to-take-california/1019341)._