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Pretty much any country has some form of martial law. For example, the US very quickly shut down one of their largest cities and all air travel in the country o
by fsh 7y ago
Pretty much any country has some form of martial law. For example, the US very quickly shut down one of their largest cities and all air travel in the country on 9/11.
- gruez 7y ago>For example, the US very quickly shut down one of their largest cities and all air travel in the country on 9/11. Locking down an entire city (cities?) is much more severe than shutting down commercial flights.
- closeparen 7y agoThe FAA already had discretionary authority over US airspace. Saying “no” to everything all at once was unusual, but didn’t exercise any new power. Martial law is more like “sudo” for the executive branch, letting it do what would not otherwise be legal.