Under a constitution-respecting Independent governor, it can.
The urgency of that question continued to ratchet upwards are reports come in that the current Republican administration has a goal for deploying 20,000 US troops inside the US for that very (alleged) purpose, as this report demonstrates.
Indeed, the time where Independents could be content to say “it’s not my fault, I didn’t vote for him” are over. At this point, it is highly questionable whether the new administration will bring any real change besides the face of him who promised it.
