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(13,903 posts)still_one
(91,943 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,270 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,035 posts)...that the current SCOTUS wont decide to clarify that decision.
ripcord
(5,082 posts)jls4561
(1,241 posts)Good luck with that to Donnie tiny hands as long as Ms. Nancy is standing guard.
superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)The entire country is under siege and I a state of unrest that martial law was intended to correct.
Demonaut
(8,909 posts)Demonaut
(8,909 posts)In United States law, martial law is limited by several court decisions handed down between the American Civil War and World War II. In 1878, Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids U.S. military involvement in domestic law enforcement without congressional approval.[citation needed]
ripcord
(5,082 posts)John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007
`Sec. 333. Interference with State and Federal law
`The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other :means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it--
`(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States
within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, :privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and :the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that :right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or
`(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes :the course of justice under those laws.
In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have :denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.'.
Demonaut
(8,909 posts)In United States law, martial law is limited by several court decisions handed down between the American Civil War and World War II. In 1878, Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids U.S. military involvement in domestic law enforcement without congressional approval.[citation needed]
ChicagoRonin
(630 posts)My guess is that it would spook the markets and add to the economic slowdown, neither of which Donnie wants, but I'm no expert.