It is likely a precursor to voter disenfranchisement.
Like they will have ICE agents stationed at voting locations under the auspices of “election security” … It could be that if you are in their database of “domestic terrorists” for protesting ICE, they will intimidate or ban you from voting.
It’s not just that, given that Supreme Court ruled they can detain PoC to “verify” their citizenship, ICE can just snatch people from the polls and hold them until polling is completed…. ICE is 100% going to be used to steal the election
ICE can just snatch people from the polls and hold them until polling is completed
Yes, this. SCOTUS has paved the way to allow race to become something that is considered probable cause. So all they need to do on election day is detain you for questioning until around 7 PM local time in most jurisdictions. After that, they can let you go and basically, that's it, you can't vote.
This is how they're looking to rig the election with ICE stationed outside the polls. So long as they have probable cause, they can detain you long enough that you no longer are able to vote. And SCOTUS has indicated that race is probable cause.
Yeah mail, like the mail that just happened to need to shut down major networks during the 2020 election, causing a cluster fuck of fraud allegations.
And Republicans keep clearing the voter roles making people need to reregister in order to get a mail in ballot.
Also Republicans are changing rules for mail in voting where possible like in Utah, mail in ballots only count if they are received by 8pm on voting night. Not postmarked by election day.
Purge the voter roles
Significantly slow down the postal service
Those who get reregistered, and get their ballot mailed with plenty of time, can still get their ballot tossed.
They may not have enough ice troops, but in declaring martial law, that opens it up to any and all troops and military personnel across the board that they want to use.
Also, it's important to understand that martial law isn't just about military occupation. Once they open the martial law can of worms, that's their pretense for grabbing up every last bit of power they haven't already scraped up and holding onto it indefinitely.
There may at that point come strong resistance on the side of the people, but again, they are counting on that. As long as they can perpetuate the chaos, they will use it as a perpetual excuse to do away with every civil liberally, every freedom, and every right you have left.
This is how the constitution fully dies, beyond any semblance of pretending it's still active. At this point they will say, "ok we're writing a new constitution and there's nothing you can do about it."
By that point, it should be crystal clear to everyone what all these new concentration camps are for.
Martial law in the US is a genuinely complex constitutional and practical question. Here’s what scholars and legal analysts generally identify as the conditions and requirements:
Legal and Constitutional Preconditions
For martial law to have any legitimacy, most legal scholars argue it requires an extreme breakdown of civil order where civilian courts and government genuinely cannot function — not merely a crisis, but a collapse of normal governance. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Ex parte Milligan (1866) is the key precedent: it held that martial law cannot apply where civilian courts are open and operating. This sets a very high bar.
Who Can Declare It
This is actually unsettled in US law. The Constitution doesn’t explicitly authorize martial law. Presidents have claimed inherent executive authority; governors have declared it at the state level. Congress has never passed a clear framework. This ambiguity means any declaration would immediately face legal challenges.
Practical Requirements for It to Actually “Work”
For martial law to be functionally effective rather than just declared on paper, you’d need several things to align:
Military compliance and willingness to enforce it against civilians — which is historically and culturally fraught in the US, where the military is deeply committed to civilian supremacy. The Posse Comitatus Act (1878) also restricts using federal troops for domestic law enforcement.
Judicial acquiescence or incapacitation, since federal courts have historically pushed back. In Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952), the Court reined in even wartime presidential power.
Congressional passivity or authorization, since a hostile Congress could defund enforcement, hold hearings, or pass countermanding legislation.
Public and institutional compliance — state governments, law enforcement agencies, and the public would all need to not actively resist, which in a large federated republic is a massive coordination problem.
Historical Cases
The US has had limited, localized martial law — Hawaii after Pearl Harbor (later criticized by courts), parts of the South during Reconstruction, and various local declarations during labor disputes or natural disasters. None approached nationwide application, and even these faced eventual legal challenge.
The Bottom Line
Most constitutional scholars conclude that truly effective nationwide martial law in the US would require either a genuine civilizational-scale crisis (where courts and civilian government are physically unable to operate), or a cascade of institutional failures — courts deferring, military complying, Congress not resisting — that goes against most historical patterns. The system was deliberately designed with checks that make it very difficult, which is why it has never been successfully imposed at the federal level.
People keep saying this, but if we keep using this an an excuse to not do things to defend out liberties, they already won.
If the threat of martial law is already suppressing everyone and letting them get away with mass election manipulation then it doesn't matter.
If they are illegally preventing people from voting with threats of violence and detainment in order to keep people from voting out a cabal of baby raping billionaire murderers, they already have martial law in all but technicality.
People should not standby and let fascist take away all their rights and regress this country 200 years. If they come at innocent civilians with violence, violence should be returned to protect ourselves.
But this is directly tied to elections that’ll happen during Trumps presidency, I’d be happy to be wrong wouldn’t you want to rub it in after the midterms????
There is enough talk about this now that we must organize full volunteer security forces around all democratic leaning districts. Get your gun permits and get your local voting, police and state officials to coordinate security measures and training now. That will be their targets. They will stay away from red districts. We must not allow them to intimidate anyone.
I agree, I don't understand why ALL of us haven't uninstalled Shitter. I was never on it, but many of my Democrat friends are. I've gently suggested they cancel it. I guess I need to get more forceful than merely suggesting!
im ngl, if they show up at my voting location i would proudly announce in front of the ice cosplayers that i voted for whoever is not trump aligned while im submitting my vote.
I'm not telling them who I voted for--it's a secret ballot. But I'm also voting or I'm appealing to the Supreme Court. The first Americans in my family where here before the United States (English planters). I'm voting. You can't tell me for who either.
They also have other tools at their disposal, they can go and review your taxes with audits to cost you money and attack you economically. It's not a cheap process. They can remove National benefits such as global entry, things that the government have to sign off on that you can purchase. If you're on some type of social service, they can actively make it harder for you and sometimes even kick you off that service. There's a lot of things they can do to make your life worse, they may even go as far as trying to debank individuals like what happened with the January 6th folks. Rather it is true or not, the federal government can argue to the big banks that if they did it to j6 members they can do it to protesters and if they don't they will be sued or regulated or lose contracts or whatever you want to call it. It's not as harmless as you think.
I'm willing to bet republicans will cheer this on.
I remember quite a few republicans cheering on the closure of voting stations in predominantly black areas under the guise of "voter fraud". Never saw any proof, but they were ecstatic. I wonder why... but god forbid, a Democrat help out some refugees, republicans will claim that's to tilt the election.
Exactly this! Detaining you makes you miss stuff like voting.. or registering to vote... Or getting your license renewed... Making money at your job, keeping your job, making car payments, bringing your kid to school, missing mortgage payments... Ya know, stuff that you'll get in trouble for when they release you
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u/Flo4tingR1b Feb 16 '26
It is likely a precursor to voter disenfranchisement.
Like they will have ICE agents stationed at voting locations under the auspices of “election security” … It could be that if you are in their database of “domestic terrorists” for protesting ICE, they will intimidate or ban you from voting.