Is This Constitutional? Here’s How Due Process Works
Due process is really having a moment, and the Founders are rolling in their graves.
The basic legal principle—that people have the right to challenge the evidence against them before the government takes away their liberty—is central to the Constitution. And yet, it has come under fire recently, after President Donald Trump’s administration deported hundreds of immigrants it alleges are gang members to a prison in El Salvador.
It appears that many people are now eager to dispense with due process, or simply do not understand what it is or why it exists.
“The entire American media and left wing industrial complex has decided the most important issue today,” said Vice President J.D. Vance last week, “is that the Trump admin deported an MS-13 gang member (and illegal alien).”
Vance was referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration illegally deported to El Salvador in violation of a court order—an action the government attributes to an “administration error.” Abrego Garcia and many other men, most of them Venezuelan, were shipped to El Salvador’s mega prison, Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT). There, President Nayib Bukele has suspended civil liberties, including due process, allowing him to imprison people indefinitely
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