Furthermore, the federal government may not intervene until asked by the governor.
Furthermore, the federal government may not intervene until asked by the governor.
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Exactly the president of the US may not invade Louisiana or any other state. Now I guess Bush could have Federalized the LA National Guard like Ike did with the AR national guard for desegregating Little Rock Central, but he had to give the LA authorities a day or so to act.
Had he federalized them the first day he would have been rightly accused of grandstanding. And the Louisiana and New Orleans officials know the territory. They know or should know where to allocate the troops and what neighborhood is what. Some out of state FEMA manager does not know this.
That is not true. The President is free to call out the National Guard during a national emergency at any time. The President may also put the Secretary of The Department of Homeland Security in charge of a national disaster at his discretion. The DHS' National Response Plan makes this clear, as do FEMA regulations, as does the history of the deployment of the National Guard, as does the legal status of a "state of emergency," which was declared by both Blanco and the federal government. As does common sense! It's the president's most basic job to act proactively during a national emergency, no matter what local officials are doing or not doing.