Democratic members of Congress who were part of a scuffle with law enforcement officers at an ICE facility in New Jersey may face arrests, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Axios Saturday.
Why it matters: It would be a major escalation in the Trump administration’s arrests of politicians and other public servants, including the mayor of Newark and a judge in Milwaukee.
- DHS is accusing the House Democrats of assaulting law enforcement. The lawmakers say they were the ones who were assaulted.
- The lawmakers involved in the incident: Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), Rob Menendez (D-N.J.) and LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.).
You’re not wrong, but that idealism assumes that the law is just and supported by due process and the writ of habeus corpus…not the desires of an unchecked tyrant.
We are currently in the latter.
It’s very concerning that people like you are unable to foresee the consequences of that.
So when I said:
Where did I say leave out due process?
Also there is no “unchecked tyrant” lol. Literally everything the US President is trying to do is being “checked” and litigated against.
Ah…so you’re ignorant. That explains it all.
Due process is being skirted for these deportees to Venezuela. There’s no trial and no recourse. It’s already happening.
Sure, some of our tyrants actions are getting challenged in court…but without the right to an attorney, individual “lawbreakers” have an expensive uphill challenge against them. Assuming they even have the opportunity, unlike the deportees. They only have the court of public opinion, and that’s assuming they get the attention of our news cycle.
And we only hear a handful of the stories of these incidents with ICE. You know there are more that aren’t making headlines and you know that means there are plenty of innocent people swept up into them, permanently disappeared without so much as a fair trial.