The lawlessness is progressing as expected. President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
As SCOTUS Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson recently warned, if the administration can take noncitizens off the streets, render them to prison in another country, and then claim it is helpless to correct the error either because the person is out of reach of U.S. jurisdiction, it could do the same thing to citizens.
Trump has said he would “love” to do exactly that, and would even be “honored” to, and El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele has been offering to hold U.S. citizens.
And former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince is pitching a plan to expand renditions to El Salvador to at least 100,000 criminal offenders from U.S. prisons and to avoid legal challenges by making part of CECOT prison American territory, then leasing it back to El Salvador to run.
WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “The president's idea for American citizens to potentially be deported, these would be heinous violent criminals who have broken our nation's laws repeatedly.”
Remember that just days ago, Trump suggested that a former government employee was guilty of treason for writing a book about his time in the first Trump administration that Trump claimed was “designed to sow chaos and distrust” in the government?
Once we give up the idea that we are all equal before the law and have the right to due process, America is done as a democracy. . Once we decide that some people have more rights than others, once it is accepted that the government has sole authority to make this decision, we give approval to the idea of an authoritarian government.
Then all we the people can do is to hope that the dictator and his henchmen overlook you.
Some people understand this.
The president of North America’s Building Trades Unions received a standing ovation when he said: “We need to make our voices heard. We’re not red, we’re not blue. We’re the building trades, the backbone of America. You want to build a $5 billion data center? Want more six-figure careers with health care, retirement, and no college debt? You don’t call Elon Musk, you call us!... And yeah, that means all of us. All of us. Including our brother [International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers] apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who we demand to be returned to us and his family now! Bring him home!”
Do you understand this?
P.S. Just the thought that taxpayer dollars are being considered for such radical actions is outrageous, beyond belief, and completely unacceptable. And for $6M spent we should be able to get one wrongly imprisoned guy back.
Is any part of the government you lead working for democracy these days?
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