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Is The National Guard Coming To Your City?

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.5 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick discusses the recent deployment of the National Guard in Washington D.C. and its implications for checks and balances in the U.S. legal system. She is joined by Elizabeth “Liza” Goitein from the non-partisan Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, a leading expert on all things Posse Comitatus, the Insurrection Act, and the Pandora’s box of domestic military deployment in policing, and the legal frameworks governing it all. Together they explore the dangers of the administration’s current actions in the nation’s capital, and whether the president can act on his threats to expand them to cities that didn’t vote for him around the country. 


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Hi, I'm Dahlia Lithwick, and this is Amicus, Slate's podcast about the courts and the Supreme Court and the law.

1:13.5

Before we kick off the show proper, I really want to give a huge shout out to Mark Joseph Stern, who worked tirelessly the last couple of weeks so that I could have a little bit of time off this summer.

1:26.0

And, hello, I'm back. Somewhat rested, somewhat,

1:29.5

restored. Very, very happy to be with you again. Okay, on to this week's show.

1:41.4

National Guard troops deployed in D.C. amid Trump's crime emergency will now be allowed to carry weapons.

1:51.0

Trump has already sent 2,200 National Guard members to the nation's capital, where police say violent

1:56.3

crime is actually at a 30-year low, down 26% from last year.

2:01.1

The president says Democratic-run cities are facing a crime emergency.

2:05.1

So the line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime.

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