Martial Law!
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
4.4 • 1.9K 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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