{"id":36259,"date":"2025-06-30T11:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=36259"},"modified":"2025-12-10T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:07:06","slug":"brennan-center-for-justice-posse-comitatus-explained-greggwmorris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/brennan-center-for-justice-posse-comitatus-explained-greggwmorris\/","title":{"rendered":"<small>From the Brennan Center for Social Justice<\/small><br> <em>Posse Comitatus<\/em> Say What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement except when expressly authorized by law. This 147-year-old law embodies an American tradition that sees military interference in civilian affairs as a threat to both democracy and personal liberty. However, recent events have revealed dangerous gaps in the law\u2019s coverage that Congress must address. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/research-reports\/posse-comitatus-act-explained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for the truth, whole truth?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15769\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/brennancenter-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/brennancenter-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/brennancenter-768x326.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/brennancenter-560x238.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/brennancenter-260x111.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/brennancenter-160x68.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/brennancenter.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement except when expressly authorized by law. This 147-year-old law embodies an American tradition that sees military interference in civilian affairs as a threat to both democracy and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/brennan-center-for-justice-posse-comitatus-explained-greggwmorris\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2269,23,398,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2269","category-alternative-news","category-factcheckingnews","category-news-commentary-opinion-fit-to-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36264,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36259\/revisions\/36264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}