Regarding military tribunals and executive orders; an objective discussion of facts at hand I would like to get some feedback on this topic from anyone reading this.  The mantra for a lot of people in this movement has been that the  Executive Order Amending the Manual for Courts Martial   has something in the text that prescribes the JAG Corps with being able to utilize a separate EO,  Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption  and recent subsequent letter to the House, extending the state of emergency declared in that EO, to try civilians under military law if they are engaged in human rights abuses, and that these EOs specifically allow for the death penalty for treason. These are just the facts about the situation; the Uniform Code of Military Justice has always allowed for the death penalty for crimes of treason, aiding the enemy, sedition, among the most notable. Noted here 906a. ARTICLE 106a. ESPIONAGE here 904. ARTICLE 104. AIDING THE ENEMY  , and here906. ARTICLE 106. SPIES So what does that EO do? Well first we need to understand that this EO is related to provisions in the Military Justice Act of 2016. These specific provisions require the president to address and amend parts of that bill as he deems necessary prior to 1/1/2019 or else the law comes into effect as is. That is what that EO does. The bigger question at hand is, what does the MJA do to change the UCMJ? I'm not a specialist in the area of military law, and I've skimmed over this document and others, and it seems like this is just a sweeping overhaul of the military justice system, and makes many changes to the way the entire process is conducted. It changes the definitions on some crimes, but the only thing that I have found that supports the argument above, is that they want to bring the system more in line with the federal justice system, and allows greater access to the civilian courts to refer crimes to the JAG courts for prosecution under a separate body of law. Does this mean the members of the deep state will be executed without due process? No, but it is interesting for sure.