While the Trump administration is still fighting a court battle in California over the Posse Comitatus Act, some red state governors don’t believe it should be so damn hard to have active-duty troops help terrorize immigrants. So they’re stepping up by sending their own National Guard members.

The Posse Comitatus Act’s prohibition on military members assisting with domestic law enforcement does not apply when a state governor activates its own guard members. Under Title 32 of the U.S. Code, guard members are paid with federal funds and do work for the federal government.

But when a governor volunteers their guard members, there’s a fiction that the state retains power and therefore does not violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

More than a dozen red states have answered the Trump administrat

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