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Calls for Trump to invoke Insurrection Act * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

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Already, Rep. Nancy Mace R-S.C., has called on President Trump to arrest Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for his implied threat to send state National Guard troops against federal immigration agents who are in Minnesota to enforce the nation’s border laws.

“Let me remind Governor Walz: President Trump is the Commander in Chief. Using your National Guard to obstruct federal law enforcement violates the Supremacy Clause. Inciting rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States is also a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 2383. President Trump should have him arrested and charged accordingly,” she said.

Now similar comments are flooding the internet, including a recommendation from Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., that Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act.

That assigns to the president the power to arrest suspects obstructing federal law enforcement.

Editor’s Note: Please be cautioned about offensive language:

“Invoke the Insurrection,” she demands in a social media post.

Walz was infuriated on Wednesday when a woman was shot while protesting the presence of federal law enforcement in Minnesota, which has been engulfed in a multi-billion dollar scandal involving fraud in social services programs that appears to encompass the state’s huge Somali immigrant community.

A woman on Wednesday protesting those officers apparently drove her vehicle toward the officers, and was shot and killed.

Fox reports the responses were to Walz’s challenges: “We do not need any further help from the federal government. To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you’ve done enough. I’ve issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard.”

There was a flood of comments similar to Miller’s:

Fox reported Walz, under state law, can deploy the guard for the “defense or relief of the state, the enforcement of the law, the protection of persons.”

‘President Trump is the Commander in Chief’: Congresswoman calls for arrest of Gov. Tim Walz

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh’s articles here.