Early reports that the Governor has FINALLY issued a call to activate the state National Guard. Important reminder of how this works: * The guard are MN residence and under control of the governor. * He cannot deploy them to block ICE on legitimate federal business. * He can require them to be observers and peacekeepers aimed at de-escalation on issues like today’s shooting. * He can have them support local PD in monitoring ICE. * The police with NG support can arrest ICE for any illegal actions. * The NG can intervene, including by force, at any clearly illegal violent action done by ICE. * Their primary mission would be observe, de-escalate, protect Minnesotans. * The President will likely try to nationalize them at some point. * Under the law nationalizing the NG requires that the State has failed to respond to the matter. So the NG cannot be nationalized when currently on a mission for the *same* purpose at the State level. * The Insurrection Act claim will also require judicial overview and Congressional consultations which likely get struck down. * This will get tenuous, but the National Guard can be held accountable at the state level, and are citizens of that state and so have a vested interest in pushing back against ICE!(Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth))