New York Times Editorial Board: Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency

[ancianita]

https://archive.ph/qqFtk
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/opinion/los-angeles-protests-national-guard-trump.html

...There is, however, a long tradition of political protest making America stronger. And protesters will do nothing to further their cause if they resort to violence. But Mr. Trump’s order establishes neither law nor order. Rather it sends the message that the administration is interested in only overreaction and overreach. The scenes of tear gas in Los Angeles streets on Sunday underscored that point: that Mr. Trump’s idea of law and order is strong-handed, disproportionate intervention that adds chaos, anxiety and risk to already tense situations.

In 2020 it was Gen. Mark Milley, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Attorney General William Barr who stepped in and overruled Mr. Trump in his pursuit of using active-duty troops to bring a violent end to demonstrations in Lafayette Square, much to the president’s frustration. His current attorney general, Pam Bondi, and secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, have shown little reservation about potentially putting troops in a position where they might have to decide whether to follow an illegal or immoral order or unnecessarily endanger civilians.
These are men and women who have sworn an oath to something more powerful than the current commander in chief: the Constitution. With little leadership, it appears they themselves will have to become students of the law and ethics that should guide their conduct. One can only hope they choose the right path.

[Walleye]

1. Swearing an oath means nothing to these phony Christians

[ancianita]

2. Dragging religion into this is neither relevant nor important. The establishment media officially back

the constitutional sovereignty of governors. The US Code of Military Justice (I've read the manual) defines illegal orders and recognizes its duties regardless of your sideswipe at religion.

The NYT Editorial Board knows that it represents the establishment press, and reminds the nation and the SCOTUS (who presumably read it) of just who is manufacturing a crisis as pretext for establishing an executive dictatorship.

[maxsolomon]

3. This is a NYT Editorial Board opinion, so tear into them, DU.