Quite an exchange just now between Sen. Merkley and FBI Director Kash Patel over whether due process applies to people targeted by the Alien Enemies Act.
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Even a layperson knows that due process applies to all criminal proceedings. It is a constitutional right. Every person. Not just citizens. But what does that matter to Kash. His boss is violating the Constitution practically every day. https://youtu.be/h48hlFqpXZs
Mind blowing that Trump’s beloved fbi director can read the same Constitution as every other fbi director before him, and every Supreme Court that ever decided a case based on the 5th amendment, and come to the exact opposite interpretation and say “I know better than anyone.”
Patel & the administration that empowered him is/are acting under the assumption that labelling somebody "an illegal", without the due process designed to determine whether any laws were violated, somehow automatically means that they become a non-person as defined by the US Constitution.
It's a good chance, I believe our planet was wiped out by a massive meteorite a few years back. God stood by and watched. We failed as a people. This is probably our punishment or some extent.
Seems so much simpler to interpret the constitution as it is written than it is to try to arrive at the opposite conclusion.
Aren't these guys the ones who claim to be "Originalists"?
I don’t think Patel does either. (I made it up, cuz I don’t believe he reads the Constitution every day, as he claims to do, the way I don’t believe self-referring Christians read the Bible every day.)
Oh, no, I think they have the "Slaves, obey your masters" part down pretty well. And the "Spend money on me, not the poor" part. And killing animals just to prove his authority.
It strikes me that if Patel and others are arguing that "every single one of the illegals" in this country are NOT to be afforded Due Process, how would Patel argue that HE wasn't an "illegal" himself if HE was accidentally whisked off the street by the government?
By Patel's logic, even if you are a citizen, the government can claim you're an illegal immigrant, guilty of a crime, and send you to a foreign prison without allowing you to prove your legal status or innocence.
I think the objective of the Russ Vought administration is to attack and challenge the Constitution. I think Trump is just a puppet for the heritage foundation and Vought is the guy in charge.
Exactly this. It's been clear from day 1 Trump has no idea what's going on or what he's signing. Worse, he seems to be enjoying not having to do the heavy lifting.
Maybe if more journalists did a better job of educating and informing the American public of what their actual rights are there would be more uproar. The whole point of due process is to determine whether something is illegal. The govt suggests illegality then has to prove it. The judge/jury decides
You mean like cutting civics classes? Still there is no reinforcement via the media. When law enforcement is involved media just repeats what they are told. Remember that George Floyd had a medical emergency. No mention he was beaten to death until video came out.
That is what happened to the 120,000 west coast Japanese Americans during WWII. They were sent to concentration camps under the enemy aliens act & EO 9066 with no due process. There only crime? Looking like the enemy.
“As the first public defender who’s ever served the FBI as its director, I am more aware of due process than any predecessor in my seat.” Something tells me he’s having Trump-like, delusions of grandeur! If he is “more aware”, how come people are being deported WITHOUT due process?
And, I suspect, he skipped over the First Amendment -- too many (45) words in that one, and a bunch of "or" clauses. Second is really simple, especially if you ignore everything before "the right".
The grandiose idea that he is better than everyone before him is the egotistical trash we have consistently seen from assclowns associated with Trump for a decade.
I was speaking to his past, before he got into politics. And his cabinet is by no means representative of the population which is approximately 50% women. And those two “women” do not represent most of us, only MAGA women. Interesting you don’t mention Tulsi the former democrat.
Patel is a sick SOB. Everyone who serves the orange menace has mental issues. He is in over his head, and only understands thuggery. I pray we somehow get through this nonsense and come out better on the other side. I have my doubts... What a fucked up timeline.
Can’t wait till someone even internationally gets right smack dab in the center of this little crime spree ring of deniers liars and frauds they have going here that entails our FBI (COSPLAY )
to not call a thing
a thing.
Deny deny blame someone else.
It won’t work, dude.
Americans have always, from time to time, railed against a "crazy justice system" that "gives criminals more rights than law-abiding citizens." The novel MAGAt (so-called) solution to those sometimes vexing protections seems to be that if something has to give, it should be the Constitution.
These conservatives must be dressed down in every public area for their continued assaults against liberties and freedoms. They all cry how over qualified they are, when in fact they are lying sycophants and grifters.
What I saw in watching that exchange was the contempt Patel has for the authority of the senator, and by extension, the contempt he must feel for the Americans the Senate represents.
The dumbest cabinet of the dumbest (lowercase) president. Actually, he’s not a cabinet member so the dumbest appointees of the dumbest (lowercase) president.
Welp, Kash might read the constitution every day but seems mightily challenged to absorb and understand even the basic meaning of it. He is a mincer of words!
I think Patel should be encouraged - um, forced- to cosplay as one of his victims
A month. Maybe two.
Then we'll ask him again about due process.
Flights can leave tonight.
If he's truly the first public defender who has served as FBI director and thus allegedly more aware of due process than any predecessor, then logically, that makes him MORE culpable for the outrageous violations of due process.
Not the point, but Kash Patel was a public defender? I wouldn't want that man defending me from a jaywalking ticket. "Your Honor, we've discovered that my client can't prove his great-great-great grandmother was a citizen. He didn't jaywalk, but I called ICE to take him away. I think he's in Libya."
Orange Dick-tator does not select educated knowledgeable people to fill any openings on his staff. He loves the
uneducated as he once stated. He only requires LOYALTY 👹
Can we do a follow up question please? It’s not a criminal act to be in the US unlawfully..it’s civil..proof of criminal activity can only be shown with..wait for it..due process
Patel needs to go. Like 90% of the Trump appointees they don't care if they break the laws as the are unqualified. They are following Trumps agenda soley which is criminal.
For the record, I verified source links in Wikipedia b4 posting. They applied for asylum in 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 , living in both Can/US.
Quote Intelligencer: "Patel’s father...was a refugee, one of the...Ugandans of Indian descent...labeled “noncitizens” and expelled by the demagogic dictator Idi Amin in 1972."
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They are even worse than Trump himself, if possible
Aren't these guys the ones who claim to be "Originalists"?
I think this is the same way so many of these so-called Christians “read the Bible every day.”
In the past-due budget, he needs to account for unofficial travel while using a jet in what appears an unofficial capacity.
***Of note, aggressive tone was markedly subdued with SEN Merkley.
What a ridiculous lie.
well there’s your problem, the Trump regime doesn’t consider immigrants to be “people.”
As he's basically just stated on the record.
I hope he's polishing up those public defender skills of his. He's going to need them.
Ugh
This is not his first rodeo, so he has experience dealing with clowns and bullshit.
well, you have served them a plate of something, Kash. thats for sure.
to not call a thing
a thing.
Deny deny blame someone else.
It won’t work, dude.
This whole “regime“ is dirty as a pig in mud. It doesn’t get any more obvious.
How fun.
"I read it everyday"
Are these under oath.
It’s a yes or no question, Kash.
👇🏻
A month. Maybe two.
Then we'll ask him again about due process.
Flights can leave tonight.
uneducated as he once stated. He only requires LOYALTY 👹
Can we do a follow up question please? It’s not a criminal act to be in the US unlawfully..it’s civil..proof of criminal activity can only be shown with..wait for it..due process
How unAmerican that is.
Quote Intelligencer: "Patel’s father...was a refugee, one of the...Ugandans of Indian descent...labeled “noncitizens” and expelled by the demagogic dictator Idi Amin in 1972."