Did you know that such a law (or legal authority to be exact) already exists, vested in the President?Hal wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 1:15 amOut of curiosity, a question for the US forum members....
If a law was enacted where you could be detained indefinitely without trial, what do you think would happen across various states ?
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It's called the Presidential Emergency Action Documents, created under Eisenhower, and highly classified such that the exact powers are not even publicly known. What is known is that as of 2018, 56 such documents existed. Among the powers are the ability to suspend writ of habeas corpus, detain "dangerous persons", impose martial law, authorize censorship of news reports and other powers. They were discussed in another thread. You can read a little more here: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ ... -documents
There's a recent news report that Ted Koppel did that you can see here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rewriting- ... al-powers/
These are tremendous powers that most people would be surprised even exist, but they do, ostensibly for the purpose of protection the nation from a foreign power. But they are totally at the discretion of one person, the President.
To your question though, if this type of legal authority were ever actually used, or commonly known, what if any reaction would there be?