In the United States, a federal statute known as the Posse Comitatus Act forbids the use of the United States Army, and through it, its offspring, the United States Air Force, as a posse comitatus or for law enforcement purposes without the approval of Congress.
According to the Associated Press, Clinton won 487 counties nationwide, compared with 2,626 for President-elect Donald Trump. There are rules to the contest, and Trump won fair and square. The rest is just noise and sore loser whining. If she wants, Hillary can go be the governor of California, or President of Saudi Arabia.
The Republican candidate won the state with 47.9 percent of the vote, though this falls short of Obamaâs decisive victory in the state in 2012, when he earned 52.8 percent of the vote. In total, Hillary Clinton won 59,739,748 votes, while Donald Trump won 59,521,401 votes. Ballots are still being counted, though, so itâs highly possible Clintonâs margin over Trump will wind up being even higher than that. Here are the number of popular votes cast in each state, via data from The New York Times.