Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11)
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to President Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy the military on U.S. soil against the will of Minnesota leaders, Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens released the following statement:
“Donald Trump and I both took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the fundamental right of all Americans to peacefully protest. Deploying the military to strike fear in our communities and intimidate Americans from speaking out is unconscionable and unacceptable. In these critical moments, state and local law enforcement are the ones best equipped to lower the temperature and keep Americans safe.
“We cannot allow the President to continue turning American streets into war zones. The last time this happened, I wrote the Stop Trump’s Abuse of Power Act to make it illegal to deploy the military on American streets to carry out the President’s authoritarian agenda. Congress must pass my bill immediately and take a stand against Donald Trump’s rampant abuses of power.”
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