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Steven Beschloss: Due Process for One and All
Steven Beschloss - Due Process for One and All
The refusal by the Trump regime to provide Kilmar Abrego Garcia due process endangers every American's civil liberties
Steven Beschloss
Apr 21, 2025
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Meanwhile, the man who uttered the oath to protect our Constitution spent his weekend expanding his fabrications about Abrego Garcia—determined to persuade the court of public opinion why this allegedly heinous criminal does not deserve due process and fundamental civil liberties.
On Saturday, he posted an obviously fabricated photo of a hand with tattoos and, in what looks like a cheap photoshop job, the letters and numbers of the Venezuelan gang on his knuckles: MS-13. “I was elected to take bad people out of the United States,” Trump wrote, mocking the idea that Abrego Garcia is “such a fine and innocent person.”
Yesterday, on Easter Sunday, Trump continued his poisonous diatribe meant to underscore how right he is to keep Abrego Garcia and others in a foreign gulag. “Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country,” he lied.
If Trump were so sure of Abrego Garcia’s guilt, it would make logical sense that he would support returning the Maryland man to the U.S. and to the judgement of U.S. courts after the government made its case. But not only has Trump worked aggressively to undermine the legitimacy of our court system and flout its rulings, he has worked even more intensely to undermine the capacity of millions of Americans to know what is true and false and to believe his lies over verifiable, evidence-based facts.
Remarkably, in an unusually swift order delivered in the middle of the night Saturday, the Supreme Court blocked additional deportations likely headed for the same El Salvador prison without judicial review. This followed an emergency request from the American Civil Liberties Union for the Court to intervene.
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The refusal by the Trump regime to provide Kilmar Abrego Garcia due process endangers every American's civil liberties
Steven Beschloss
Apr 21, 2025
/snip/
Meanwhile, the man who uttered the oath to protect our Constitution spent his weekend expanding his fabrications about Abrego Garcia—determined to persuade the court of public opinion why this allegedly heinous criminal does not deserve due process and fundamental civil liberties.
On Saturday, he posted an obviously fabricated photo of a hand with tattoos and, in what looks like a cheap photoshop job, the letters and numbers of the Venezuelan gang on his knuckles: MS-13. “I was elected to take bad people out of the United States,” Trump wrote, mocking the idea that Abrego Garcia is “such a fine and innocent person.”
Yesterday, on Easter Sunday, Trump continued his poisonous diatribe meant to underscore how right he is to keep Abrego Garcia and others in a foreign gulag. “Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country,” he lied.
If Trump were so sure of Abrego Garcia’s guilt, it would make logical sense that he would support returning the Maryland man to the U.S. and to the judgement of U.S. courts after the government made its case. But not only has Trump worked aggressively to undermine the legitimacy of our court system and flout its rulings, he has worked even more intensely to undermine the capacity of millions of Americans to know what is true and false and to believe his lies over verifiable, evidence-based facts.
Remarkably, in an unusually swift order delivered in the middle of the night Saturday, the Supreme Court blocked additional deportations likely headed for the same El Salvador prison without judicial review. This followed an emergency request from the American Civil Liberties Union for the Court to intervene.
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