Martial law is a military takeover of a country’s civil legal system. When a country has martial law, there’s no independent judiciary to oversee law enforcement activities. Instead, law enforcement can make arrests without any independent body to oversee or monitor their activities. Martial law means that the military and other law enforcement bodies control the movement and detention of individuals within in the country. To challenge martial law, a detainee brings a petition for habeas corpus. United States law (…)