Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by President Donald Trump began arriving in the nation’s capital on Tuesday, ramping up after the White House ordered federal forces to take over the city’s police department and reduce crime in what the president called — without substantiation — a lawless city.
And oath breakers:
I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Below is specifically the oath of office for national guard, which includes the lines I’ve put in bold…
Edit: I’m not defending the national guard soldiers, but they DO answer directly to the president as per their oath
If following presidential orders to do things that violate the Condition is ok, why can’t you disregard the president’s orders and adhere to the Constitution?
What makes one right and the other wrong?
You can disregard unlawful orders, in fact it’s expected of service members to do so. But the reality is they are just worried about bills like everyone else so they will fall in line since doing the right thing is hard.
I don’t have an answer, just showing that the wording of the national guard’s oath, being slightly different from the rest of the military, makes this a little more complicated than it should be