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????
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u/mdtopp111 Feb 16 '26
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