{"id":14085,"date":"2025-09-04T00:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=14085"},"modified":"2025-09-04T00:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:29:56","slug":"der-truppenpoker-wie-trump-zwischen-chicago-und-new-orleans-seine-macht-austestet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/der-truppenpoker-wie-trump-zwischen-chicago-und-new-orleans-seine-macht-austestet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Troop Poker: How Trump Tests His Power Between Chicago and New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is one of those reversals that characterize Donald Trump's presidency: just moments ago he was boasting with the certainty of a conqueror \"We are going in,\" and already he is rowing back, leaving options open, shifting targets. On September 3, the president sits in the Oval Office and drops a remark between diplomatic pleasantries that threatens to throw the federal balance of the United States off-kilter. Chicago or New Orleans? The question sounds banal, yet it touches the core of American power distribution: who decides over security in the cities? And what happens when Washington sends its soldiers, whether invited or not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is unfolding here transcends the usual law-and-order rhetoric. It is a trial run for a new form of presidential domestic policy in which military means are to become the norm. Chicago, the windy city on Lake Michigan, and New Orleans, the pearl on the Mississippi, are turning into laboratories for an experiment whose outcome no one knows - perhaps not even the experimenter himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The capital Washington serves as a research subject. Here, 2,200 National Guardsmen are already patrolling, transforming the streets of the capital into a military training zone. What would be unthinkable elsewhere is possible here: the District of Columbia is directly under federal authority, the D.C. National Guard follows presidential orders without going through a governor. It is a historical exception that Trump wants to make the rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But the republic is fighting back. In Los Angeles, a federal judge ruled devastatingly on September 2: the use of the National Guard violates the Posse Comitatus Act, that relic from the Reconstruction era that cemented the separation of military and police. The decision applies only to California for now, but its waves reach Illinois and Louisiana. It is a reminder that presidential power in America is not unlimited, that between announcement and execution lies a thicket of laws, precedents, and federal jurisdictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These actions demonstrate that Defendants knew that they were ordering troops to execute domestic law beyond their usual authority. Whether they believed that some constitutional or other exception applied does not matter;<\/strong> Ob sie glaubten, dass eine verfassungsrechtliche oder andere Ausnahme Anwendung fand, spielt keine Rolle;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Chicago has dug in. Mayor Brandon Johnson, who swore before angry crowds over the weekend not to tolerate any \"militarized force\" in his city, is mobilizing resistance on all levels. An executive order obligates city agencies to refuse any cooperation with unconstitutional federal interventions. The Chicago Public Schools are sending letters to parents with tips for \"safety in numbers.\" Churches are planning \"Resistance Sundays.\" The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights is activating emergency hotlines. It is a mobilization reminiscent of the great civil rights battles, only this time the opponent is not named Bull Connor but Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n