But that is not martial law. The thing about martial law is there are no guidelines to when the president or military can declare it, they just can.
“One of the problems, of course, is that there’s nothing to prevent the president or a military commander from declaring martial law,” Bill Banks, a Syracuse professor with an expertise in constitutional and national security law, told Military Times. “They can just do it. It’s not sanctioned by law.”
Banks believes that martial law would not be tolerated by top military officials in peacetime when civil institutions are working, but looking at the fact that President Trump has appointed Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie to top positions in the Pentagon begs the question of why?
Bossie has supported the idea of martial law and if the president has people running the Pentagon supporting it, who knows where that could lead.
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