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Isn't the US a federated country? Surely it's up to the local police to ask for help from other police if they wish to, and then perhaps ask for help from the national guard, not the other way round?

And isn't it state governors who control the national guard, not the Federal president?

I assume the Waco types will be out there opposing "The Feds" trampling over state rights?

>>iso163+(OP)
The US has a federal system, but people are guaranteed basic rights within it. If the local government can’t or won’t protect those rights (the police abandoned one of their five precincts to the looters!), the feds have the right and duty to step in.

>>SpicyL+p7
Posse Commitatus prevents the military from performing law-enforcement duties. The _governor_ can activate the national guard for cases like this.