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Recent Examples of deputize
However, members of the Texas National Guard, who have been federally deputized, could be involved guarding detainees.
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Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Trump has deputized Musk to oversee an unprecedented effort to slash the federal government that has effectively shuttered several agencies and fired tens of thousands of workers.
—Andy Sullivan, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
Lawsuits filed by the ACLU, the National Immigration Law Center, and multiple other bodies have halted or delayed several Trump initiatives, including attempts to expand asylum restrictions and deputize local law enforcement as immigration agents.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
And civil rights demonstrators – including a future congressman – were savagely beaten in 1965 by state troopers and deputized citizens in Selma, Alabama.
—Andy Rose, CNN, 13 Mar. 2025
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Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Trump has deputized Musk to oversee an unprecedented effort to slash the federal government that has effectively shuttered several agencies and fired tens of thousands of workers.
—Andy Sullivan, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
Lawsuits filed by the ACLU, the National Immigration Law Center, and multiple other bodies have halted or delayed several Trump initiatives, including attempts to expand asylum restrictions and deputize local law enforcement as immigration agents.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
And civil rights demonstrators – including a future congressman – were savagely beaten in 1965 by state troopers and deputized citizens in Selma, Alabama.
—Andy Rose, CNN, 13 Mar. 2025
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“Deputize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deputize. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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