Can an Executive Order result in martial law? and other stuff

Brook Hines, Jeanine Molloff and Rick Spisak with progressive news & analysis. 

Rick Spisak chats with Libbe HaLevy of Nuclear HotSeat. 

The Justice Report this week on executive orders with no foundation in Constitution, called PEADs. These are used to declare martial law and certain emergencies. In theory Trump could use a PEAD to cancel elections and jail opponents. Jeanine Molloff digs into this problematic situation. 

 

CITATIONS
Epic Ben Norton reporting on CLS Strategies being banned by Facebook for covert propaganda in service of RW LatinAm regimes: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/06/cls-strategies-facebook-propaganda-venezuela-bolivia/

Minority Report, precrime in FL: 
https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/sheriffs-response/

Presidential emergency action documents: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/presidential-emergency-action-documents

Misusing "confirmation" in service of propaganda: https://theintercept.com/2020/09/05/journalisms-new-propaganda-tool-using-confirmed-to-mean-its-opposite/