# National Guard or Political Weapon?

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Podcast: [Stanford Legal](https://stenobird.com/podcast/stanford-legal-523119)
Published: 2025-10-30T13:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-legal-on-siriusxm/
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## Resource

Legal historian and constitutional law scholar Professor Bernadette Meyler cautions that the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard threatens the “presumption of regularity” that underpins the rule of law

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