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· 6/11/1990

Perpich v. Department of Defense

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  • 496 U.S. 334
  • 110 S. Ct. 2418
  • 110 L. Ed. 2d 312
  • 1990 U.S. LEXIS 3012
  • 58 U.S.L.W. 4750

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1990 United States Supreme Court case

Perpich v. Department of Defense, 496 U.S. 334 (1990), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court concerning the Militia Clauses of Article I, Section 8, of the United States Constitution , in which the court held that Congress may authorize members of the National Guard to be ordered to active federal duty for purposes of training outside the United States without either the consent of the governor of the affected state or the declaration of a national emergency . The plaintiff was Rudy Perpich , governor of Minnesota at the time.

In 1986, after governors George Deukmejian of California and Joseph E. Brennan of Maine refused to allow the deployment of their states' National Guard units to Central America for training, Congress passed the Montgomery Amendment, which prohibited state governors from withholding their consent. Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis had also challenged the law, but lost in U.S. District Court in Boston in 1988.[1]

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  1. David Evans (June 12, 1990). "SUPREME COURT CONFIRMS U.S. CONTROL OVER GUARD" . Chicago Tribune.

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  • “The unchallenged validity of the dual enlistment system means that the members of the National Guard of Minnesota who are ordered into federal service with the National Guard of the United States lose their status as members of the state militia during their period of active duty.”

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