Adam Kinzinger: Newsom Should Activate the State Guard to Keep Trump From Doing It

Brett T. | 8:30 PM on June 10, 2025

We were all waiting and wondering when Adam Kinzinger was going to weigh in on the Los Angeles riots. Kinzinger's been having some deep thoughts about the Second Amendment and has some advice for Gov. Gavin Newsom. He should activate the rest of the state's National Guard troops to keep President Trump from doing it. After all, a state has a right to a militia, right?

I’m not sure why Gavin Newsome doesn’t activate the rest of his army guard to prevent the president from it or force him to overrule it…. Then fight on the second amendment guaranteeing a state a right to a militia. How can a state have a militia if the president can simply…
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@AdamKinzinger) June 10, 2025

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… federalize it against the direct wishes of the governor

Wait, what?
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) June 10, 2025

How did you serve in Congress without reading the Constitution?

Article II makes the president "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States"

Article I empowers… https://t.co/hYD8NYgY4c
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) June 10, 2025

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… Congress "To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions" and "To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress"