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Reflections: Seems like yesterday when D.Gov Faubus activated the Little Rock National Guard to block nine Black students from desegregating Central High School
Next day R.Pres Eisenhower nationalized that Guard Unit, confined it to barracks, declared martial law, and deployed the 101st Airborne to escort the students,
https://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/search?q=little+rock
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US stages troops for Minnesota Rioting & Rebellion
1,500 soldiers on standby for possible Minnesota deployment,
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/us/minnesota-protests-national-guard-immigration-hnk
The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for possible deployment to Minnesota,
Two battalions from the Alaska-based 11th Airborne Division are on ‘prepare-to-deploy orders’ in Minnesota, according to a US defense official.
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Walz’s Minn National Guard mobilizes on stand-by
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/us/minnesota-protests-national-guard-immigration-hnk
The Minnesota National Guard “are not deployed to city streets at this time, but are ready to help support public safety,” Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety said in a social media post which included pictures of Guard members gathering bags of equipment alongside a row of trucks on a snowy road.
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Insurrection 101: The POTUS has the authority to nationalize a State’s National Guard and place them under his command.
Key recent examples include President Eisenhower federalizing the Arkansas Guard in 1957, President Kennedy federalizing Mississippi and Alabama Guards (1962, 1963), President Bush federalizing the California Guard (1992 LA Riots), and President Trump federalizing California's Guard (2025 LA protests)
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