Update #2 (14 June): An appellate court has put a temporary pause on Judge Breyer’s grandiloquent order (see previous update below) and scheduled an emergency hearing for this Tuesday, 17 June (see here).

Update (13 June): Charles Breyer, an unelected federal judge in Northern California, has “blocked” President Trump’s deployment of local National Guard units in Los Angeles (see here). Really? How will the judge enforce his 36-page order?

My original blog post (12 June): Given the recent events in Los Angeles, California (my hometown), where I will be visiting next week, I am reposting a link to my 2019 paper “Domestic Constitutional Violence“. Among other things, my work provides some general historical background regarding the use of military force inside the United States: I describe how the U.S. Congress, going back to the presidencies of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, has delegated a specific set of emergency powers to the president to deal with certain classes of domestic dangers. (Nota bene: Due to my travel schedule this weekend, I will resume my series on “AI and critical thinking” on Monday, June 16.)