In a rambling and fact-challenged press conference on Tuesday, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi trotted out a long-discredited narrative that President Trump failed to deploy the National Guard on January 6 because he simply didn’t want to—while at the same time bizarrely accusing him of violating the Constitution by sending in the Guard elsewhere without gubernatorial permission.
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Pelosi claimed, “The president has said he couldn’t, he can’t send in the Guard without the governor’s… permission.” She continued, “Section 12046 of Article X says that the… National Guard cannot be called up by the president without the consent of the governor.”
There is a major problem with this assertion and not just that there is no “Article 10” of the Constitution. Clearly she was confused
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