A few days ago, the Washington Post gleefully announced in a front-page headline that some retired American generals are criticizing President Trump’s decision to send Army troops to our southern border.  The troops are being sent to support police facing the Central American “migrant caravan.”  These former officers claim that Trump is dangerously politicizing the military by involving them in the border crisis.  The opposite is true.  By publicly questioning the President’s clearly legal use of the military to help secure the border they are doing exactly what they claim to oppose -- making the military a political football.  The issue is the generals raise is politics, not the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the military from acting as a domestic arm of law enforcement.  If there is one legal thing military officers understand, it is Posse Comitatus.  In my experience as a JAG officer many years ago, it was a...(Read Full Article)