The Coronavirus fearmongering has obviously been flying around for weeks. We keep getting all the “Trump’s shutting down the nation for (X) long!!!!!!!”. No one ever actually has a named source, but, they keep having to knock this down, like
People with too much time on their hands were spreading unfounded rumors, looking for their social media 15 minutes and likes https://t.co/Dh0WTd3YyH
— William Teach2 ??????? #refuseresist (@WTeach2) March 21, 2020
Where are the sources for these things? And the media itself isn’t helping. Here’s Rolling Stone, which used to be about music, taking a Politico screed to an even higher Moonbat level
DOJ Wants to Suspend Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency
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 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 Democratically-controlled House of Representatives, they demonstrate how much this White House has a frightening disregard for rights enumerated in the Constitution.
First, if you read that Politico article, they offer zero sources nor do they show us these “documents” to decide for ourselves.
The DOJ has requested 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 civil processes and proceedings.†They justify this by saying currently judges can pause judicial proceedings in an emergency but that new legislation would allow them to apply it “in a consistent manner.â€
Wait, so they can already do this, but the DOJ (if the documents are real) want this done in a consistent manner? How horrible! Here’s where it gets fun
But the Constitution grants citizens habeas corpus which gives arrestees the right to appear in front of a judge and ask to be released before trial. Enacting legislation like the DOJ wants would essentially suspend habeas corpus indefinitely until the emergency ended. Further, DOJ asked Congress to suspend the statute of limitations on criminal investigations and civil proceedings during the emergency until a year after it ended.
Norman L. Reimer, executive director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, told Politico the measure was “terrifying,†saying, “Not only would it be a violation of [habeas corpus], but it says ‘affecting pre-arrest.’ So that means you could be arrested and never brought before a judge until they decide that the emergency or the civil disobedience is over. I find it absolutely terrifying. Especially in a time of emergency, we should be very careful about granting new powers to the government.â€
“That is something that should not happen in a democracy,†he added.
Hmm, suddenly Liberals, OK, Modern Socialists, find it terrifying to grant Government new powers. Welcome to Conservatism, folks!
