Martial Law?

[Stinky The Clown]

Barr and Trump planning *something* today. Trump is fucking crazy. Barr is his biggest enabler. Both are authoritarian. I don't think a call for a national day of unity and love is in the offing.

[mucifer]

1. yup

[bamagal62]

2. Can they do that without

Congressional approval?

[sfstaxprep]

11. Under Certain Circumstances

A Pandemic just happens to be one of them.

He could do it, if he says it's being done because of the Pandemic.

[Marrah_Goodman]

3. Will not happen.

[Miguelito Loveless]

5. If I had a dollar for every time someone told me

that Trump would NEVER do x, i would have a tidy sum now.

Martial law is coming. Maybe not today, but by the election.

[woodsprite]

4. I'm expecting something like that.

I warned my son as he headed out to his girlfriend's house. We've kind of been co-quarentining between the 2 families. If Trump does declare or do something stupid, son is coming home to be locked down here.

I'm 57, and can't remember ever in my entire life using the word "hate" and truly feeling it in my heart. In the past, I've always been able to find a way to temper it somewhat or push it back down until the situation improved. That changed around 2017.

[sarisataka]

6. Have the courts closed somewhere?

Martial law in the US has a different meaning than most people assume.

[Wawannabe]

8. This is correct

Educated myself yesterday.

Possibly an OP is in order?? I would not be the author tho. I’m no expert.

[Coleman]

10. Civilians arrested by the military

would be turned over to the civilian courts for prosecution. Ex parte Milligan. But of course with the current Supreme Court, that could change.

[Coleman]

7. I think the Joint Chiefs will go against Trumpster

and the Sec Def and the service secretaries and say not only no, but hell no.

[highplainsdem]

9. See this OP, and reply 7 in that thread:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213513271

[sfstaxprep]

12. Let The Fucker Do It

ANY chance he has of even a mild recovery in the economy before the election will go bye bye.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Step two has occurred. The Insurrection Act invoked.

It has been invoked before, but never for this by a man such as this.

I am not feeling confident of the future.