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Performative politics found two Democratic senators urging their lame-duck leader to make a show of interfering with incoming President-elect Donald Trump’s authority over the military.

If it weren’t clear enough with open border policies, objections to meaningful legislation to safeguard national sovereignty, and adamant opposition to voter ID laws, leftist leaders remained hellbent on maintaining sanctuary for illegal aliens.

As Trump and his border czar designee Tom Homan have voiced favor for mass deportations using the full extent of federal law, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal wanted one more show of resistance from President Joe Biden aimed at keeping the GOP leader from using the military toward deportations.

“We write to urge you to issue a policy directive that prohibits the mobilization of active duty military or federalizing National Guard personnel to be deployed against their fellow Americans unless specifically authorized,” they wrote advancing the narrative that Trump would deploy the military against the “enemy within.”

Addressed to both Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the senators continued, “We urge you to issue a policy directive that makes clear that the narrow application of the Insurrection Act should be limited to instances when State or local authorities are so overwhelmed and that the chief executive of the State requests assistance or attacks against the U.S. government overwhelm State or local authorities.”

Detailing how the Insurrection Act impacts the parameters of the Posse Comitatus Act, which requires congressional authorization for domestic military use, with exceptions in cases of “insurrection, rebellion or extreme civil unrest,” the lawmakers also raised the Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity to drum up concerns of authoritarian action from Trump.

“Given the disagreement among scholars on the serious implications of the recent Supreme Court decision, it is reasonable to assume that service members, other DoD personnel, and the broader military community may not be aware of or fully understand their rights and responsibilities,” wrote Warren and Blumenthal. “If unaddressed, any ambiguity on the lawful use of military force, coupled with President-elect Trump’s demonstrated intent to utilize the military in such dangerous and unprecedented ways, may prove to be devastating.”

Left out of their argument in calling for a readily undone executive action was how state and local officials had voiced their favor to potentially obstruct federal law enforcement efforts to deport criminal foreign nationals.

As Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R) argued in response to Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s (R) opposition to mass deportations with a possible “Tiananmen Square moment,” “…people need to realize that what he is offering is a form of insurrection where the states resist the federal government.”

Of course, the letter from the senators who both sat on the Senate Armed Services Committee kept a focus on ensuring that militant leftists would continue to be able to wreak havoc under the second Trump administration as they mentioned supposed “peaceful protests” while touting then Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s unilateral decision to dismiss active-duty forces called up to potentially disperse occupiers in Lafayette Square without notifying the White House.

“Finally, we urge you to clarify that the President must consult with Congress to the maximum extent practicable before exercising this authority, as well as transmit to the Federal Register the legal authorities,” petitioned the senators.

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