martial law

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/22/2020
  

  Trump Loyalists Harboring Martial Law Fantasies Don’t Know Their History

  by Gillian Brockell

  Michael Flynn's casual mention that martial law has ben invoked "64 times" flagrantly ignores the context of those events. What he proposes for Trump to do is unprecedented.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/16/2020
  

  North Carolina GOP Lawmaker Urges Trump to ‘Invoke the Insurrection Act’ over Election Results

  A North Carolina State Senator suggested Trump would be justified in using the military to prevent the validation of Joe Biden's election. 

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• SOURCE: Brennan Center
  8/20/2020
  

  Martial Law in the United States: Its Meaning, Its History, and Why the President Can’t Declare It

  A report from the Brennan Center concludes that martial law is poorly defined in American law, but the President lacks the authority to declare it unilaterally.

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  6/1/2020
  

  Trump's Praise for China over Tiananmen Square Years ago was a Preview of his Support for Military Crackdowns on the George Floyd Protests

  Donald Trump in a 1990 Playboy interview praised the Chinese government's crackdown, saying it avoided signalling weakness.