People keep talking about “Federalizing the National Guard” and now you’ve got other States pledging their NG to Texas in defiance of the Supreme Court (see image).

So is this what CW2 looks like?

P.S. I’m a Brit

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
    71·
    9 months ago

    Unlike normal army units though, each state or territory has its own national guard unit under the command of the governor.

    What’s the chain of command?

    Does it stop at the Governor, or does it go from the Governor to the President?

    Do they swear an allegiance to the state Constitution, or to the Federal Constitution?

    • splicerslicer@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      They swear allegiance to the federal constitution, the governor, and the president. With the president being CIC and having power over the governor and the constitution having power overall. So in theory, the governor cannot give you orders that defy the president, and not even the president can give force you to comply with an unlawful order. It would take some serious stones to defy orders though