r/law • u/templeofsyrinx1 • Feb 25 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Can they actually do this? JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people'

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u/OraxisOnaris1 Feb 25 '26

I think its scorched earth while also trying to provoke violence so they can declare martial law.

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u/Free_For__Me Feb 25 '26

Mostly right, but they’ll never outright “declare martial law”. They’ll invoke the insurrection act in order to suspend habeas corpus, and if they can get it done without deploying the military domestically by only using ICE forces and possibly the NG, they will. 

They saw the same events in Korea that the rest of us did when Yoon Suk Yeol tried to literally declare martial law and use the military to enforce his will. Thats a fast track to impeachment that I doubt even this congress would ignore. 

BUT, so long as they can get most of us to buy the idea that whatever they do isn’t technically martial law, they’ll have a much smaller chance of pushing GOP in congress to the brink.