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To: WildHighlander57
-- And since we are in a 'state of war', then there can be unlawful combatants, subject to military tribunals, correct? --

There are military tribunals underway every day, and some against "unlawful combatants."

The combination that is approximately forbidden by the civilian courts is US citizens in military court. The only way around that is to disable the civilian courts, and even the Civil War didn't go that far.

Not that civilian courts couldn't be shut down or circumvented, but that condition would take or be a radical change from status quo.

The rhetoric in the case you cited is a distinction by Congress. The branch that defends the civilian courts is the civilian courts. IOW, the distinction we look for is not one that Congress does or does not make, it is one that the courts make or do not make.

If national emergency is a trigger to shut down the civilian courts, then why are the civilian courts still open?

353 posted on 08/23/2018 3:12:46 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt
Cboldt, ol' chum ol' pal.

If what you way is true, then Q is either mistaken, lying, or a Larp.

I will have to side with Q on this one.

Bagster


355 posted on 08/23/2018 3:18:25 AM PDT by bagster ( "Even bad men love their mamas.")
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To: Cboldt

Pearls and all that.


356 posted on 08/23/2018 3:34:40 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (If I knew when I was going to need my gun, I wouldn't need my gun.)
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