It's hard to make the case for voting on Tuesday without citing the transfinite number of reprehensible acts carried out by the Trump administration. But the point of 15104, at least through 11/06, is not to bash Mr. Trump, but rather simply to urge readers to vote. Given that, Bodhi has arrived at a topic for today.
Posse comitatus originally meant a group, summoned by a local police official (usually a sheriff), to keep the peace or enforce an unpopular law. More recently, the term translates from legal-speak as the statute, passed just after our Civil War, that makes it illegal for our military to be used to uphold domestic ordinances.
Given that, the policy Trump put forward recently - to station as many as 15,000 troops on our border with Mexico, and to allow those troops to shoot to defend themselves from stones and rocks - is arguably illegal and unconstitutional. What's more, it will, should he insist upon it, cost taxpayers a bat-bleep load of money - approximately $150,000,000.00 (one hundred fifty million).
As few as 23 seats in the House of Representatives would allow Democrats to act as a guardrail to instances like this of the reality TV President.
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