Elie Honig on Newsom’s Lawsuit to Trump over National Guard Deployment: ‘We Are in Unknown Territory Here’

RUSH EXCERPT:

HONIG: “Now, I can tell you what the response is going to be. We haven‘t seen it yet, but the Trump Administration is going to say that‘s just a technicality. It‘s really the president‘s call. And there‘s no way this law intends to say that the governor can essentially override or cancel the president‘s order. And I‘ll tell you what the answer is. The answer is we don‘t know, because this particular statute is only ever been invoked one prior time in American history. There have been other incidents of the insurrection act. That‘s not what we‘re talking about here. This specific lawsuit was only invoked once. It was in 1970, and it involved a postal worker strike where Richard Nixon, Nixon deputized the national guard to deliver the mail. So a very different scenario that one didn‘t even go to the court. So we are really in unknown territory here.”