Matt Baker (@mebakerlaw.bsky.social)

In today’s “One First,” I wrote about #SCOTUS’s 1866 decision in Ex parte Milligan—and the limits on martial law and military rule for which it still stands. (It’s also a good excuse to talk about the first “class photo” of the justices—from February 1867): www.stevevladeck.com/p/111-ex-par...

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111. Ex parte Milligan and the Limits of Martial Law Although it was later narrowed, the Supreme Court's 1866 repudiation of Civil War-era military commissions remains a bulwark against military authority wherever civilian courts are functioning https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/111-ex-parte-milligan-and-the-limits

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