If we're talking about the same event back in the mid 1950's, Eisenhower sent in federal troops, the 101st Airborne Division, to ensure that the Constitution was not being violated...
When the Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that separate schools for whites and blacks were unconstitutional and inherently unequal, the slow and often violent dismantling of segregation in educational institutions began across the country...
But in 1955, in a subsequent ruling that addressed the lagging progress being made by states, the court demanded that integration happen “with all deliberate speed.” The school board of Little Rock, Arkansas, voted to desegregate their high schools starting in 1957, which led to a crisis that catapulted the State’s governor into a showdown with the president Eisenhower at that time, of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
By 1957, Arkansas had already integrated several state universities and smaller school districts, but when nine black students decided to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, which would desegregate a large urban district, threats of violence and protests erupted...
Days before the school year started, the governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus, a segregationist, announced on September 2, 1957, that he would order the state’s National Guard to surround Central to prevent the black students from entering, under the guise of protecting them from mob violence. In response, Federal Judge Ronald Davies issued a ruling the very next day, mandating that integrated classes would proceed as court ordered...
That was a completely different situation, it had nothing to do with local civil disobedience such as rioting and looting which is completely under the jurisdiction of the local mayors and governors...
If I'm wrong, then tell me what Constitutional Amendment is being violated today that would demand federal troops??? TIA
Federal troops can only be deployed at the request of the governors of those States, rioting and looting is a criminal act and violates only city and State civil laws... it's the full responsibility of the mayors and governors to act to control those violations, not the federal government unless the local officials specifically ask for federal help...
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