If Democrat Minnesota Governor Tim Walz incites rebellion and makes good on his threat to use his state’s National Guard to obstruct federal law enforcement, President Donald Trump should have him arrested and charged, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said Thursday.
On Wednesday, Gov. Walz publicly warned Pres. Trump and Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem that he was mobilizing the National Guard against federal authority following the fatal shooting of an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protester who was fatally shot as she hit an ICE agent with her vehicle.
“Tim Walz just issued a ‘warning order’ to prepare the Minnesota National Guard for deployment. Let me remind Governor Walz: President Trump is the Commander in Chief,” Rep. Noem said in a social media post citing federal law:
“Inciting rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States is also a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 2383.”
“President Trump should have him arrested and charged accordingly,” the congresswoman concluded.
Gov. Walz routinely uses inflammatory rhetoric to demonize ICE agents, such as when he called them “modern-day Gestapo” like that of Adolph Hitler’s Nazi regime.
“I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed, if necessary," Gov. Walz threatened Wednesday in “a very simple message” to Pres. Trump and DHS Sec. Kristi Noem., denouncing the federal government’s efforts to enforce U.S. immigration law in his state.
“Gov. Tim Walz has suggested that he might call out the National Guard to protect citizens from the federal government. His antebellum notions of state authority went out of style in the 1860s. Just ask Jefferson Davis...,” George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley noted in a social media post reacting to Walz's threat.
DEM GOV. TIM WALZ: "I have a very simple message: We do not need any further help from the federal government."
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 7, 2026
"To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem: You've done enough."
"I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared… pic.twitter.com/zWpwQIERuF
Yesterday, Tim Walz declared Minnesota is at "war against the federal government."
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 7, 2026
Again today, he called it "war with our federal government."
This lunatic is SICK and DANGEROUS! pic.twitter.com/1WRBs1pBxI
