There’s been a call by some, including Lin Wood, for the president to declare martial law in the wake of the stolen election. I’ve already weighed in on this here, but last night Trump’s attorney Jenna Ellis also weighed in on it, shooting down the prospect as undermining the law:
FOX NEWS – Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to the Trump campaign who has argued for many of its failed legal efforts to overturn the result of the presidential election, Wednesday evening panned calls for President Trump to impose martial law and hold a new presidential election.
Ellis was responding to a tweet from a professional wrestler who had tweeted that Trump needs “to call martial law & redo the whole presidential election!!!” But the calls for what would be an unprecedented usurpation of the Constitution have come from other higher-profile sources as well.
Former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn essentially called for the same thing in a Newsmax appearance, telling Trump to “take military capabilities and place them in those states and basically rerun an election in each of those states.”
Below is the tweet from Ellis:
It doesn’t work like that.
We have a constitutional process for the Electoral College and remedies for corrupted elections.
I totally understand Americans’ passion, but we have to uphold the law, not undermine it. https://t.co/6iWk8WcBuj
— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) December 24, 2020
“It doesn’t work like that,” Ellis said in a tweet. “We have a constitutional process for the Electoral College and remedies for corrupted elections. I totally understand Americans’ passion, but we have to uphold the law, not undermine it.”
Ellis has made clear her desire for the courts to step in and rule for the president in some of the cases she and other Trump allies have pursued and excoriated them for not doing so.
As Fox News points out, Kurt Schlichter agrees with her:
This is correct. What happened during the election is an outrage. From what I saw personally I believe this election was unfairly stolen. We have a process to deal with that and it is imperfect. We have not even approached the frontier of extraconstitutional remedies. https://t.co/m56rArkDDF
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 24, 2020
At this point, assuming the rest of Trump’s challenges fail in the courts, the best that can be done is for the DOJ to investigate and expose all of the election fraud AND for the states to ensure that this doesn’t happen again in 2024 by fixing their laws. Martial law and a military-run election is not the answer.