The #SouthKorea #constitution has a provision (§77) allowing the President to declare #MartialLaw and allowing the National Assembly to reverse the President.
asianlii.org/kr/legis/const/19…
The US constitution has no such provision. If #Trump ever declares martial law in this country, that would be a coup d'état, not the exercise of a constitutional option like vetoing a piece of legislation. It would be an unconstitutional suspension of the constitution. It would be a high crime and misdemeanor.
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FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to petersuber • • •"It would be a high crime and misdemeanor."
Presumably it would only be a crime in practice if congress actually prosecuted him for it, and it seems there aren't enough people in congress willing to do that? (Considering how they took no action about Trump's 2021 coup attempt?)
Shadow Heart
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FediThing 🏳️🌈
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Genuine question: can a sitting president ignore the constitution if the supreme court and congress are both unwilling to stand up to him?
(I don't mean from a theoretical legal point of view, but from a practical point of view. Would anyone be able to stop Trump breaking the constitution if congress and the supreme court do nothing?)