EM BURLINGAME: The President would have statutory grounds to federalize the Guard, thereby nullifying the governor's control and redirecting the units to support federal objectives.

Federal Diversity Forced on Whites at Gunpoint. The irony appears that Trump is working to reverse some of this. We shall see.

Gov. Orval Faubus did this in Arkansas in 1957 to block a federal order to integrate the schools. Pres. Eisenhower responded by federalizing the National Guard--reversing the (now deployed) Guards' orders overnight to enforce integration. --Jay the Scribe

The President would have statutory grounds to federalize the Guard, thereby nullifying the governor's control and redirecting the units to support federal objectives. This is not merely theoretical; historical precedents illustrate the point. For instance, in 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard after Governor Orval Faubus deployed it to block the integration of Little Rock Central High School, in defiance of a federal court order stemming from Brown v. Board of Education. Eisenhower's action overrode the governor, transforming the Guard from a tool of state resistance into one enforcing federal law. Similarly, in 1963, President John F. Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard to ensure the desegregation of the University of Alabama, countering Governor George Wallace's obstructionist stance. These cases demonstrate that when state deployment of the Guard impedes federal authority, the President can intervene decisively. --EM Burlingame