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Sun 17 Jan, 2021 06:06 pm
I hear people speaking (I think irresponsibly) about martial law.
I do not know of anything in the U.S. Constitution to enable such a declaration.
I believe that in each of the State Constitutions, there is a provision for the declaration of a state of emergency under which the government may take extreme actions to address the emergency. Perhaps this is similar to martial law.
@gollum,
All the recent comments about martial law involve Trump using the US Military to overturn the results of the election. I don't think anyone else is talking about martial law.
Is this what you are talking about?
@gollum,
I think anyone using the US military to overturn the result of a US election is unconstitutional and generally a bad thing.
@maxdancona,
maxdancona-
Yup. I'd say always a bad thing.