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Tuesday, March 31st, 2020

DOJ Wants to Suspend Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency

Author:     Peter Wade
Source:     RollingStone
Publication Date:     MARCH 21, 2020 4:54PM ET
 Link: DOJ Wants to Suspend Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency
Stephan:   I have held onto this story for a week because I thought it couldn't possibly be correct. Even Trump and Barr wouldn't that blatantly dismantle the Constitution. Well, I was wrong, that is exactly what they want to do. We are drifting into a kleptocratic christofascist takeover of the country just as the Titanic sailed onto an iceberg and sank. The Trumplicans, using the Covid-19 pandemic for cover are attempting a form of coup in which your Constitutional rights are suspended. Wake up America!

Attorney General William Barr participates in a news conference with Justice Department officials.
Credit: Michael Reynolds/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

The Trump Department of Justice has asked Congress to craft legislation allowing chief judges to indefinitely hold people without trial and suspend other constitutionally protected rights during the coronavirus and other emergencies, according to a report by Politico’s Betsy Woodruff Swan.

While the asks from the Department of Justice will likely not come to fruition with a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, they demonstrate how much this White House has a frightening disregard for rights enumerated in the Constitution.

The DOJ has requested that Congress allow any chief judge of a district court to pause court proceedings “whenever the district court is fully or partially closed by virtue of any natural disaster, civil disobedience, or other emergency situation,” according to draft language obtained by Politico. This would be applicable to “any statutes or rules of procedure otherwise affecting pre-arrest, post-arrest, pre-trial, trial, and post-trial procedures in criminal and juvenile proceedings and all […]

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