“‘Mark, in seeing what’s happening so quickly, and reading about the Dominion law suits attempting to stop any meaningful investigation we are at a point of � no return � in saving our Republic !! Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!’
The text, which has not previously been reported, is a particularly vivid example of how congressional opposition to Biden’s election was underpinned by paranoid and debunked conspiracy theories like those about Dominion voting machines. Norman’s text also showed the potentially violent lengths to which some congressional Republicans were willing to go in order to keep Trump in power. The log Meadows provided to the select committee does not include a response to Norman’s message.” ibid
This illustrates both the right’s contempt for the Constitution and conservatives’ ignorance of its case law.
A president doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally declare ‘martial law’; among the required conditions for such a declaration is that the courts are no longer functioning, which clearly isn’t the case (see Ex parte Milligan (1866)).