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Source: Judge Andrew Napolitano for Consortium News

This is not constitutional hairsplitting. This is very serious business. If the feds can characterize an unarmed assemblage of protesters as an invasion merely because they are angry, carry a foreign flag and prefer a foreign language — all protected speech — and engage in civil disobedience, and thus justify the use of military force against them, whose freedoms are safe?

The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that there is no emergency exception in the Constitution unleashing the government. The emergency argument is not only unconstitutional but extra-constitutional. It was crafted by those who reject their oaths to preserve, protect and defend the supreme law of the land.