House Republican Ralph Norman has been accused of 'sedition' after it emerged he called for 'marshall law' to block Joe Biden's inauguration.
Norman made the suggestion in a text to Mark Meadows, then Trump's White House chief of staff, which was included in a bundle of 2,319 text messages turned over to the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol Building.
In the January 17, 2021 message, published by media company Talking Points Memo, Norman wrote:"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!!National Guard soldiers inside Congress following the January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riot. GOP Congressman Ralph Norman called for"marshall law" to keep Trump in power.
Martial law has been imposed several times in U.S. history—generally locally—in response to a grave threat or natural disasters. For example, the law has invoked following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the 1920 Lexington riots, and the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Its legal basis is contested, with the New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice noting the
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