Do you think F47 will use the Insurrection Act (1807) to declare martial law between April 20 and April 26, 2025?

[0rganism]

Executive order issued Jan. 20, 2025: "Within 90 days of the date of this proclamation [deadline: April 20, 2025], the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the President about the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807."

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	Yes, Insurrection Act invocation and martial law sometime next week
	15 (44%)
	No, this will never happen for some reason
	0 (0%)
	No, it might happen sometime, but not next week
	17 (50%)
	Everyone gets a pony, because friendship IS magic!
	1 (3%)
	Waffle Party
	1 (3%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Jack Bone]

1. NOLA JAZZ starts on the 24th...

Speaker Johnson would lose his seat if he allowed that to happen during Jazzfest!

Probably get tarred & feathered too!!

[0rganism]

2. nudge n/t

[Pototan]

3. Next week Trump will get the blueprint

He still will need a "trigger event" to implement the IA to make a credible argument to his base.

[Walleye]

4. Maybe, but his base doesn't need any kind of credible argument. They just need to see him say it is so.

[Pototan]

7. They need a veiled excuse

even if it's a lie. His base still interacts with normal people, and they want to at least say something. Even Hitler needed the Reichstag fire.

[Volaris]

10. Hes gonna be in for a world of hurt if he does...

Imagine him trying to implement say, a 10pm curfew. Every bar in the nation would outright defy him.
He can claim this all he wants, but there simply aren't enough cops.

[meadowlander]

5. Hitler's birthday is April 20th.

What else do you get the autocrat who has everything?

[J_William_Ryan]

6. Trump can't declare 'martial law.'

It would be illegal and un-constitutional, the Insurrection Act would be neither authorization nor justification.

But Trump doesn’t care about the Constitution or law, and will again ignore the Supreme Court.

It will then depend on how the states and military respond.

[Pototan]

8. Yes, he can

Throughout American history, the federal and state governments have declared martial law over 60 times. The Constitution of the United States does not define martial law and is silent as to who can impose it. However, the modern interpretation allows the president and state officials to declare "degrees of martial law in specific circumstances."

https://constitution.findlaw.com/article2/annotation09.html

[MiHale]

9. That action might lead to riots like in the 60's...

When you got nothing to lose…a lot of people will feel that way.

[0rganism]

11. bump n/t