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If the President directly orders the military to arrest politicians and citizens, that is clearly illegal. The stumbling block is if the President invokes the
by rawgabbit 2y ago
If the President directly orders the military to arrest politicians and citizens, that is clearly illegal.
The stumbling block is if the President invokes the Insurrection Act. Which is a bit of a gray area.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807