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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCould they use this shutdown as cover for martial law?
Maybe my tinfoil hat is on too tight and I need to put the pink pussy cap back on.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)ollie10
(2,091 posts)woodsprite
(11,924 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I don't trust him at all. Whatever plans he has are not good for any of us.
denbot
(9,901 posts)Relax, its cool, well at least as cool as a rudderless country can be.
GP6971
(31,205 posts)and it would be a stupid move.
gordianot
(15,245 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)Our Constitution limits martial law. In addition the Posse Comitatus statute provides further restrictions which precludes using the federal military for domestic law enforcement unless approved by Congress. There is no need to fear military law here.
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)to do anything like that would require a significant amount of public approval. The US is a large and diverse country, in which Trump's strong disapproval is near 50%, with strong approval only about half that. The "somewhat approve" crowd is around half the size of the "strongly approve" gang, and an idiotic move towards martial law would drive them over the fence to the other side. Then I'd expect "strongly disapprove" from 70%; and the level of actual cooperation with martial law plans would be minor
They're just not smart enough or well-organized enough to pull that off
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Him and whose Army?
woodsprite
(11,924 posts)Add to that a relatively supportive and psychotic base with a good number of sheeple.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Take off the tinfoil hat.
onenote
(42,759 posts)"If, in foreign invasion or civil war, the courts are actually closed, and it is impossible to administer criminal justice according to law, then, on the theatre of active military operations, where war really prevails, there is a necessity to furnish a substitute for the civil authority, thus overthrown, to preserve the safety of the army and society; and as no power is left but the military, it is allowed to govern by martial rule until the laws can have their free course. As necessity creates the rule, so it limits its duration; for, if this government is continued after the courts are reinstated, it is a gross usurpation of power. Martial rule can never exist where the courts are open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction. It is also confined to the locality of actual war."