DiogenesLamp:
"I am enjoying watching him hand out the spankings. :)" What you fantasize as "spankings" are in fact nothing more than wild flailing's at phantasms.
Our brand new poster, woodpusher (since 2-19-20), is good at posting quotes, but like others here, not so good at using them to make coherent arguments.
Consider, for example, the 1863 Lieber Code, which woodpusher uses to supposedly nullify Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation:
"Art. 38.
Private property, unless forfeited by crimes or by offenses of the owner, can be seized only by way of military necessity, for the support or other benefit of the army or of the United States."
In fact, Lincoln himself acknowledged his Emancipation Proclamation was a matter of military necessity, and was seen then and today as essential to Union victory.
As for crimes, waging declared war against the United States more than qualifies.
So woodpusher is flailing, his arguments failing, our own concurrence or dissent on ex parte Milligan notwithstanding.
Sometimes I get sick of all the Civil War arguments that never seems to go anywhere and wonder whether people don't have present-day real world things to worry about.
But when the arguments stop, I sort of miss them. Having real world things to worry about isn't as much fun as one might think.