His meritless effort to rehash legal arguments already rejected by other courts is nothing more than a ploy to run out the clock, and the damaging evidence filed by the committee makes clear why. These texts take on an even more ominous cast when read together with emails disclosed by the January 6 committeeвЂ™s recent legal filing in a civil suit Meadows brought to block the committeeвЂ™s subpoenas. We should not be so inured to extremism from the Republican right that such a text message fails to shock us We should not be so inured to extremism from the Republican right that such a text message fails to shock us. Multiple elected federal officials sworn to uphold the constitution were contemplating abandoning it for the law of the jungle. By passing the idea along, she suggests she is willing to entertain it herself. Greene was telling the then White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, that some Republican members of Congress were allegedly advocating to end the 225-year tradition of power transferring peacefully after elections and instead using force to keep the loser in office. Rather, she was referring to вЂњmartial lawвЂќ, the use of the military to control all features of American life and to shut down our constitutional system of government. Nor was she referencing the former secretary of state George Marshall. She wasnвЂ™t referring to Thurgood Marshall. On 17 January, 11 days after the violent Capitol insurrection and three days before the scheduled transition of power to Joe Biden, she wrote: вЂњIn our private chat with only Members several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call Marshall law.вЂќ The curfew remained in effect for the rest of the day, even though Logan believed the threat to be over after midnight.The most striking text was an exchange from Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican congresswoman from Georgia. When Karen warned Bill that DHS agents were coming, Chloe escaped to a hotel bar while the curfew was still in effect. Later, Chloe O'Brian left CTU with help from Karen Hayes and Bill Buchanan and stayed at Bill's house for a short while. With added pressure from Gardner and the recent nerve gas attack on CTU, Logan declared martial law in Los Angeles at approximately 8:04pm. Logan was at first skeptical about the idea, believing that martial law would encite chaos rather than contain it.

President Keeler insinuated to Secretary of Defense Heller that martial law might be an option to consider, due to the unprecedented level of civil unrest.ДЄ little after 6:00pm on Day 5, Vice President Hal Gardner requested that President Charles Logan enforce martial law in order to help aid the search for the nerve gas. Curfews were often put into effect during states of martial law.ДЄfter Habib Marwan escaped from the Rockland Building, there was reason to suspect that he had another attack planned for the day. Martial law was declared in states of emergency, or at any time that events could lead to civil unrest within the population. Martial law was a system of rules that enables the military to take over the normal administration of justice.

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