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joetubes

(45 posts)
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 10:57 PM Thursday

Martial Law

How is Martial law initiated?

Could the next president declare Martial Law and then arrest all of the rump administration. Ice, , everyone hired after 1/21/25 in the federal government, all military that followed illegal orders, I was ordered to do this BS ! Then no trails just ship all of them to the same places that they shipped the Immigrants?

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Martial Law (Original Post) joetubes Thursday OP
sure bro Skittles Thursday #1
Most posts that mention martial law don't know what martial law is and isn't. onenote Thursday #2
Exactly!!! MarineCombatEngineer Thursday #4
Not supporting anyone who promises or declares Martial law at this point. Who knows in future? Silent Type Thursday #3
You mean John Coktosten Thursday #5

onenote

(45,919 posts)
2. Most posts that mention martial law don't know what martial law is and isn't.
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 11:03 PM
Thursday

The Supreme Court long ago explained what martial law is and the limits of its implementation under the Constitution:

Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2 (1866)

"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."

MarineCombatEngineer

(17,337 posts)
4. Exactly!!!
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 11:43 PM
Thursday

Most people don't understand the parameters of what would constitute Martial Law being declared.

Silent Type

(12,269 posts)
3. Not supporting anyone who promises or declares Martial law at this point. Who knows in future?
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 11:07 PM
Thursday
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