Posted on 05/18/2020 6:46:28 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
This date in 1865 was the originally scheduled hanging of Indiana pro-slavery gadfly Lambdin P. Milligan a sentence respited two days prior by President Andrew Johnson, and then subsequently commuted, for which reason Milligan survived to attach his surname to a landmark Supreme Court decision the following year...
Milligan was among several of the conspirators swept up in arrests in the following weeks, then tried by military tribunal for treason and sedition. Its hard to argue that the plot was anything but.
But why a military court? This is the question in Milligans great legacy to posterity, the Supreme Court ruling Ex Parte Milligan.
Milligan himself was not a soldier, and had not been in a war zone. He was a civilian, and Indianas regular civilian courts had never ceased to function. The question at stake in Milligans appeal to the Supreme Court was whether there was any legitimate recourse to a military tribunal under such conditions well behind the lines, as it were...
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Kavanaugh and Graham discussed this case at Kavanaugh’s appointment hearings.
I won’t be around during the day tomorrow to join in the discussions. It is going to be a tense day at work; a lot of people are going to be unhappy with the boss.
So.... HOW unhappy we talkin’ here. ;0)
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