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The Dershow

Martial Law!

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The New York Times is reporting on rumors that the President may be considering invoking martial law. Could this happen? Would it be constitutional?

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0:00.0

The New York Times reports that there was discussion of the president invoking

0:06.0

martial law and conducting a new election under the auspices of the military.

0:13.0

Thankfully, President Trump has denied it.

0:15.0

You'll hear why that would be unconstitutional on the Dershore show.

0:20.0

Today we talk about a constitutional apocalypse.

0:27.0

Apparently, according to the New York Times, there are reports that the president was considering, he's denied

0:37.1

it, was considering invoking martial law and rerunning the election with guns out and the military controlling the election.

0:51.7

We know that General Flynn, remember him, the former National Security

0:56.6

advisor who was prosecuted and then got a pardon, who's served the country greatly in the past.

1:04.4

According to his appearance on Newsmack,

1:08.2

Newsmacks, Mr Flynn pushed for Mr. Trump

1:11.3

to impose martial law and deploy the military to rerun the election.

1:17.8

At one point in the meeting on Friday, Mr. Trump asked about that idea.

1:24.2

That's according to the New York Times.

1:26.1

President Trump has denied any interest in imposing martial law,

1:32.2

but it's out there. I'm getting lots and lots of emails. Here's an email just an hour ago.

1:40.7

Quote, I'm hearing from an indirect credible source that Podes, the president, will invoke

1:46.4

the Insirection Act this week, replace Mark Meadows and General Flynn, with General Flynn, and Sidney Powell will be named as a special prosecutor on election

1:59.1

fraud. The email asks me to check it out. I have no way of checking it out except to expose it and talk about it on the Dersh show.

2:09.0

So let's talk about it. This is an issue in which I am genuinely an expert without, you know, blowing

2:16.6

my own horn. I have written books and articles about national emergencies. I started writing about this in 1970 when I was a

2:27.0

consultant to Pierre Trudeau and the Canadian government when they invoked the

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