Per normal you are just spot on.
There is pretty good evidence that Lincoln considered rescinding martial law the night that Richmond fell. He discussed it with Grant. It seems he decided not to rescind it because A He was newly re elected and felt he had time to 'tidy up' and B He wanted to maintain control over the prosecution of the Southern leaders.
It's a pity that Lincoln didn't have time. It would have delayed where we are today. Martial law is pretty strict and gives inordinate power to the President. So now, here we are with the President having the power to issue 'executive orders' that carry about 96% of the weight of legislation. I'd venture to guess that 30,000 pages of the 'code' are the direct result of executive orders.
Andy Johnson was an insufferable boob that liked the 'executive orders' part of his job. He wasn't going to kill that goose that literally lined his pockets with golden eggs.
Our probable best chance after Lincoln might have been Teddy Roosevelt but he really wanted a National Park system so the siren of executive order also caught him. Now it's PART OF THE CODE and a significant fraction of that 180,000 pages just buttresses 'the way things are'.
Sorta related. 114 people were arrested Saturday night in Phoenix over the protest/rioting. At least 100 had their cases thrown out Monday because the Phoenix PD used the exact same charges and statements of evidence on them. The judges said 'no probable cause'. Another good lesson about the evils of copy/paste in life.
Thanks Sult. Again. Needs to be said.
Thank you Tom. Nice to hear that at least one judge in Phoenix is not willing to rubber stamp approve of how the police are operating.
A local judge here responded to me when I inquired about the gold fringe flag in his court room. Rather than take the time to actually find out he did a quick Google search and then copied and pasted 4 paragraphs from the site into a word document , printed it out on court letter head, hand signed it and mailed it to me. Never once mentioning that he lifted the text off of copyrighted private website. I recognized it right away seeing that I done a whole bunch research prior to sending him the inquiry.
When I got that letter in the mail from him I promptly fired off an email reminding him that copy and pasting copyrighted material is theft, and punishable in a court of law. I never heard another word from that bastard but I guarantee you that if I ever have to go before him in that court he will be reminded of that indiscretion of his. His court is the local JP court where traffic tickets are tried, and I've actually been trying to acquire a traffic ticket lately just so I can have an appointment with that court.
That should be real fun when that happens!
Ahahahaha. To quote John Prine "Sweet revenge, sweet revenge will prevail, without fail."
There were at least two judges involved, and 14 lawyers in common. The lawyer that spoke up was 'duly outraged'.
Are you sure about that lawyer who spoke up? To be 'duly outraged' that would be saying he was required to be outraged, or proper to be outraged.
Quite possibly he was "dually outraged" which would mean he was outraged on two sides. Side one being that the cops acted in such a behavior and side two that the judge dropped the charges meaning he loses a bunch of revenue opportunity.
My guess is that he 'dually outraged', but just my guess.