Johnson pressed on whether National Guard should be sent to his Louisiana district

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Friday defended the Trump administration for mulling a broader deployment of National Guard troops to major cities to fight crime, but he was noncommittal when it came to a federal law enforcement crackdown in his own district.

“I don’t know, that’s not my call,” Johnson said in an interview on CNN’s “News Central” when asked if the National Guard should be deployed in Shreveport, La. “It may be necessary; I don’t know. Let’s take one city at a time and see.”

"We have to address the crime problem in any city where it is, if it’s a problem like that,” he added.

Like I get he's a hypocrite, but could we just not have any military in any city bc I feel like having National Guard also in Louisiana cities just kinda helps shift us all more towards authoritarianism.

Editing to add this: I posted about Newsom calling Johnson out over Shreveport's own crime rate a little over a week ago.

But, I am also growing very suspicious of Newsom. In the last few days he has made some calls that seem to be taken directly from the Louisiana authoritarian playbook of Jeff Landry.

I actually just wrote something about this yesterday. As Newsom pushes for greater state control, California cities should be cautious