Technology like video chat makes martial law unlikely in US arsenal against coronavirus, experts say

CNS Fellow, senior attorney in the U.S. Department of Defense, and military and law professor at Columbia University Michel Paradis says, “I think advances in technology probably make the need to suspend habeas corpus far less than it ever was when you literally had to go out and literally carry the body into a courtroom that was open,” “But it also may challenge the basic rules the courts have laid out in habeas corpus cases to understanding when we’re in martial law and when martial law is actually truly justified.”

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Karen Greenberg