Martial Law during the Covid 19 Outbreak? What is it and what does it mean? | The Legalist

Martial Law during the Covid 19 Outbreak? What is it and what does it mean? | The Legalist

Hi I'm Lee Davis attorney and owner of Lee Davis Law LLC here in Atlanta Georgia and this is the legalist. Now typically on the Legalist, I try to explain complex legal concepts in ordinary normal everyday English so that everyone can understand what they might be and today is no exception except that I am also going to be playing amateur videographer that is because I am currently observing social distancing recommendations due to the Covid 19 crisis as are the professionals that normally help me with these things so while this video hopefully will be informative I can assure you it's not going to be the top-notch professional quality that you're normally used to on this show however I hope to offer some very valuable information about something that we might be seeing in the future possibly near future however I hope to provide some valuable information about a legal concept that you might be hearing about in the near future with regard to the Covid 19 crisis and that is martial law. There's two questions I want to answer today. First what is martial law and second do we need to be afraid? I want to answer the second one first. Not necessarily. there are times when martial law is very helpful in keeping order and getting the community back on their feet but then there are other times when it has been abused. So hopefully at the end of this video you will understand that there are times when martial law could be helpful but that we need to be vigilant and make sure that the second to the need is over so is martial law. First I want to address the question what is martial law? Martial law is simply the replacement of civilian laws and possibly civilian government in favor of military law. In extreme cases the government can be set aside any military governor can be appointed but these are pretty rare certainly in the United States, at least