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The Supreme Court's decision in Ex parte Milligan, which held that trying civilians by military commission was unlawful.
The Supreme Court’s martial law decisions form a sparse, old, and sometimes contradictory patchwork: the Court has repeatedly ruled that military rule is permissible only in narrow circumstances, has ...
The Supreme Court’s long run of decisions has carved a narrow rule: civilians may not be tried by military tribunals when ordinary civilian courts are open and functioning, yet the Court has allowed e...
Ex parte Milligan decisively constrained the reach of martial law by holding that military tribunals cannot try civilians where civilian courts are open and operating, reasserting constitutional safeg...