The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes. The purpose of the act – in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807 – is to limit the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States. It was passed as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction and was updated in 1956 and 1981.
The act specifically applies only to the United States Army and, as amended in 1956, the United States Air Force. Although the act does not explicitly mention the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps, the Department of the Navy has prescribed regulations that are generally construed to give the act force with respect to those services as well. The act does not prevent the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state’s governor. The United States Coast Guard, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security, is not covered by the Posse Comitatus Act either, primarily because although the Coast Guard is an armed service, it also has both a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency mission.
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Poss Comitatus depends on whatever our masters determine it to be. Our WWI veterans found this out the hard way. We are fortunate today in one respect: we do not have to worry so much about the military since the police have become militarized.
I pray that our people (and law enforcement) recognize a higher authority than the Deep State overthrowing the country.
David DeGerolamo
h/t Brock Townsend
Not sure if this is pertinent but, seems so.
Yes, WWI Veterans found out the hard way during the Miner’s Rebellion. Where was Posse Comitatus then?
Personally, I think the both the DHS and DEA should be abolished and replaced by the military for patrolling US borders.