Is Obama really using Executive Order to impose martial law?

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Over the weekend, a fury erupted over President Obama’s release of an Executive Order that, according to many pundits, gives the president the power to take control of the national economy.  According to normally level-headed commentator Dick Morris, who wrote a column titled “Obama assumes dictatorial powers,” the order gives “him vast powers to control every aspect of the U.S. economy in the event of war or even during a peacetime ‘emergency.’”

The pundits usually link the Executive Order to the National Defense Authorization Act, which many claim gives the president the power to indefinitely detain American citizens on charges of terrorism.  As this column pointed out, the NDAA actually contains a specific exemption for U.S. citizens and legal aliens.  Even if the charges about the law were true, it would be a gross violation of the Constitution and the right to habeas corpus.

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