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Posted on 07/13/2020 12:06:29 PM PDT by eastforker
Given that they could make their first appearance in the coronavirus crisis, Congress should insist on having full access to them. The past few weeks have given Americans a crash course in the powers that federal, state and local governments wield during emergencies.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Annotation: Martial law involves the temporary substitution of military authority for civilian rule and is usually invoked in time of war, rebellion, or natural disaster.
Abstract: When martial law is in effect, the military commander of an area or country has unlimited authority to make and enforce laws. Martial law is justified when civilian authority has ceased to function, is completely absent, or has become ineffective. Further, martial law suspends all existing laws, as well as civil authority and the ordinary administration of justice. In the United States, martial law may be declared by proclamation of the President or a State governor, but such a formal proclamation is not necessary. Although the U.S. Constitution makes no specific provision for the imposition of martial law, nearly every State has a constitutional provision authorizing the government to impose martial law. The power of martial law, once held to be nearly absolute, has limitations; for example, civilians may not be tried by military tribunals as long as civilian courts are functional. Nonetheless, within the bounds of court decisions, a military commander’s authority under martial law is virtually unlimited. Martial law has been declared nine times since World War II and, in five instances, was designed to counter resistance to Federal desegregation decrees in the South. Although a climate of mutual aid has always existed between the military and civilian law enforcement and should continue to exist, Department of Defense personnel are limited in what they can do to enforce civil law. Military personnel cannot be used in surveillance or undercover operations, and they may not be used as informants, investigators, or interrogators unless the investigation is a joint military-civilian operation in which the military has an interest in the case’s outcome.
NYT didn’t have the vapors over Obama’s pen and phone.
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“in five instances, was designed to counter resistance to Federal desegregation decrees in the South”
So this must mean the Democrats were once again the root of trouble in those instances?
Maybe he has Biden’s health records and medication history.
What part of “Aren’t allowed to know” do you not understand?
Hopefully one of those secret powers is the ability to arrest journalists who illegally receive privileged material from “unnamed government officials.” (Violation of national security laws.) Or who simply make it up and pretend they got it from such officials (sedition of treason).
Kinda makes me think of “Animal House” when Dean Wermer put the Deltas on double secret probation.
Now, it would appear as though there are double secret emergency powers.
>>The past few weeks have given Americans a crash course in the powers that federal, state and local governments wield during emergencies.
Um, state and local governments don’t have the power to pick and choose which political gatherings are acceptable (union meetings, BLM protests, Marxist arsonists for anarchy) and which are not (Republican conventions, Trump rallies, church meetings).
Look! On the TV! Its ......
Here is hoping that one of his powers is to induce heart attacks on all liberal Nov. 4th!
His being sworn in abrogated the Constitution.
It says natural born citizen.
He is not one.
Perhaps the president’s emergency powers could finally put the New York Slimes our of its long, racist misery?
https://www.historynet.com/stop-the-presses-lincoln-suppresses-journalism.htm. Smile smile smile.
"Expansion of the President's power to declare martial law under revisions to the Insurrection Act, and take charge of United States National Guard troops without state governor authorization when public order has been lost and the state and its constituted authorities cannot enforce the law (amended in 2008 by H.R.4986 SEC.1068"
"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."
older eyes and all that
Wasn’t abused for hundreds of years, but now we really must look to how we can maintain our rights and reel the tyrants in as they create healthcare emergency hoaxes to justify de facto dictatorships at the state and local levels. Maybe Trump will go there too with using the army to force the Fauci/Gates “vaccine” on us?
I hope not.... that would be a egregious breach of law...
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Note how the part about guaranteeing a Republican Form of government does not require application from the state legislature. If a state is blatantly engaging in vote fraud, the President can act unilaterally.
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