"Deeply concerned" Democrats ask Biden to prevent Trump from using the military on US soil

Two Democratic senators are urging President Joe Biden to try and prevent President-elect Donald Trump from deploying the U.S. military on home soil once he takes office as he's promised in recent months, NBC News reported Monday. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., wrote a letter to Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin asking them to issue a policy directive that “prohibits the mobilization of active duty military or federalizing National Guard personnel to be deployed against their fellow Americans.” Trump has long vowed to use the military to aid with the mass deportation of immigrants without legal immigration status. “If unaddressed, any ambiguity on the lawful use of military force, coupled with President-elect Trump’s demonstrated intent to utilize the military in such dangerous and unprecedented ways, may prove to be devastating,” the letter reads. “We are deeply concerned that during his previous term in office, President-elect Trump repeatedly sought to use the military to impede the First Amendment rights of Americans,” the letter states, the senators adding that it is “antithetical” to “weaponize the military” to advance the president’s political interests.