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lanre -1 points ago +4 / -5

It's BS. There's no way Trump would be able to enact military tribunals against citizens when the civilian courts are still functioning. This matter was already tested and resolved during the civil war, when people were actively killing each other en masse, and Lincoln still lost that battle (rightly so).

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StrangerThanFiction 4 points ago +4 / -0

If he uses the insurrection act to call on the unorganized militia, he could then court martial any able-bodied male aged 18 to 45. According to this anyway:

https://macris.substack.com/p/trump-at-the-rubicon

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StrangerThanFiction 1 point ago +1 / -0

You could probably voluntarily join an organized militia group, but the unorganized militia is 18 to 45 year old males and female members of the military.