CERL’s Professor Claire Finkelstein spoke with KYW Newsradio about President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C. Philadelphia and other major cities should prepare for the possibility of efforts by the Trump administration to wrest control of local law enforcement, she states. With federal law shifting and the Supreme Court taking a “sympathetic” stance toward executive power, litigation of cases brought by cities and states will face challenges.

Professor Finkelstein also shared with WHYY that while it is illegal for President Trump to take control of police forces in Philadelphia, he may in certain circumstances have the legal authority to federalize the National Guard in Pennsylvania (read here).

Claire Finkelstein is the Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law. Read her bio here.   

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