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King George III's practice of shipping men to overseas prisons without due process helped earn him a revolution, the judge reminded Trump.
"Judge Boasberg's #NoKings Message to Trump on El Salvador"
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King George III's practice of shipping men to overseas prisons without due process helped earn him a revolution, the judge reminded Trump.
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The reason should be self-evident: the due process of law exists so that no person within our borders regardless of citizenship is deprived of his liberty on insufficient evidence or a spurious charge, Boasberg wrote on Wednesday.
Its not clear what form of due process the men eventually will receive, especially given the Trump administrations attempts to resist compliance in these cases. From a legal standpoint, fighting Boasbergs finding would seem futile: The Supreme Court recently ruled that the men at El Salvadors CECOT prison are entitled to due process with all nine Justices agreeing, Boasberg noted.
Boesberg buried a message inside his nearly 70-page ruling to Donald Trump: King George III shipped colonists to overseas prisons without due process too, and he reaped the whirlwind.
Our legal tradition is wholly incompatible with the establishment of a network of overseas prisons, shielded from the Great Writ [of habeas corpus] by the facade of foreign control, to which the government routinely exports detainees without due process a legal no mans land, the ruling states. Indeed, the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 generally prohibited detention beyond the seas to places where the writ did not run, [ ] and such abuses partly animated this nations War for Independence.

LetMyPeopleVote
(164,288 posts)One of the reasons that the due process clause is in the US Constitution in more than one section is the fact that the framers had seen how King George abused the lack of due process.
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trump is committing the same abuses that the founders saw King George do.
dchill
(42,513 posts)Republicans ALWAYS vote for a king. A REPUBLICAN king, of course.
malaise
(284,819 posts)and he reaped the whirlwind.
Hope this happens and soon
Must read. - REC
lastlib
(26,037 posts)...as a cause for the separation from Great Britain. As it should have been. Habeas corpus is "a right inestimable to (free men) and formidable to tyrants only."
Cha
(311,548 posts)soldierant
(8,589 posts)that revolution, we might mention
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
(I knew saving that list of grievances would come in handy some day.)
druidity33
(6,733 posts)ananda
(31,997 posts)Trump and followers consider only white males to be
fully human, thus entitled to literally do and be
anything they want without impunity or compunction.
Even the founders considered only white men, particularly
slave-holders, to be fully human.
The country was founded by slave-holders and people
who used indentured servants. Many of our states began
as prison colonies.
Now, today, Trump and followers want to take us back
to the time of our founders and slave-holders. They want
the entire country run only by white men, with absolutely
no civil or human rights granted to anyone else.
The new "plantations" will be prison colonies run by the
ultra-rich, managed by overseers, and worked by everyone
else.
I presume that reproduction will be managed and supervised
to produce brown/black workers, but ensure that whites
will be the majority.
I presume that drives the desire for crypto-currency to take
over as the monetary system also.
This is what people who consider themselves decent and sane
voted for... just because they want white men to take over
again.
But the actual result will, of course, be an abolute hellscape --
a nightmare of monumental proportions... if it gets that far.
How long it would last is another question entirely, since I
don't think there's much sanity or competence at play,
but we'll see.