Senator Rand Paul has warned that the fascism seen in Canada is coming to America to impose martial law on our own citizens.
Senator Paul said on the BASED Politics podcast that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s executive power is “very, very dangerous,” adding, “We have the same sort of statutes here, and I have long been an opponent of these.”
“In the United States, we actually have an Emergency Act that allows the president to turn off the internet,” Paul cautioned.
Summit.news reports: The Senator further noted that he tried to get Democrats to ally with libertarian-leaning Republicans to restrict emergency power legislation during the Trump administration.
“[Sen.] Mike Lee had some reforms that he put forward on the Emergency Act, and it’s something we should look at, because these things go on and on,” Paul explained.
He added, “There are some emergencies in the U.S. that have been going on for many, many decades. And the president can just renew them every year. There’s no real stopping him.”
“And so the emergency edict that Trudeau has done in Canada allows him to do some horrendous things, allows him to stop travel, allows him to detain people without trial. Now we don’t know that he’s going to do that, but it is very, very worrisome what he might do,” Paul urged, referring back to Trudeau’s crackdown.
Listen:
Canada has moved to make the asset freezing part of its Emergencies Act, which was used to target supporters of the Freedom Convoy protests, a permanent fixture.
Trudeau vowed this week that emergency measure will remain in place, and the Canadian parliament voted Monday to keep them in force.
Senator Paul is right and most democrats would side with Biden who is more our enemy than Putin.
That’s what the 2A is for
Sure he can do it, but, he needs enforcers to make it happen. Lucky for Biden, your friends and family and neighbors and Co workers will enforce free of charge.
Paul must have read my comments.
Rand Paul, please give Lindsay Graham a deliberate kick in the nuts and remind Graham which political party he belongs to.
We litigated the question of suspending the Constitution back in 2001.
The relevant authorities held that the ONLY Clause in the Constitution that can be suspended is the Great Writ of Habeas Corpus, and even that requires an Act of the Legislature.
Neither the President nor the Courts may unilaterally suspend Habeas Corpus, absent an Act of the Legislature to that end.
We put that question before the Arizona Supreme Court, in the weeks immediately after 9/11/2001, and a Justice on that Arizona Supreme Court STILL ruled that our client had a Habeas Corpus remedy in the lower Arizona State Courts.
In other words, EVEN THEN the Great Writ of Habeas Corpus had NOT been suspended in Arizona.
See Ex parte Merryman for a U.S. Supreme Court decision on this same point
(C.J. Taney told Pres. Lincoln he could NOT prosecute the Civil War using martial law;
Lincoln did anyway, but Taney did make his point, and Lincoln was wrong to do so.)
p.s. Rand Paul should not be following the advice of his famous father as much as Rand does.
cool story bro, now just show us where within the four corners of the constitution it grants the president the authority to call for martial law.
So my question is “How can one law circumvent the Constitution”? That is confusing to me.