DOJ Wants to Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency

[Lady Freedom Returns]

POLITICS NEWS
MARCH 21, 2020 4:54PM ET
By PETER WADE
DOJ Wants to Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency
The Department of Justice has secretly asked Congress for the ability to detain arrested people “indefinitely” in addition to other powers that one expert called “terrifying”

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.

It's a short story. Read the whole article at-
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/doj-suspend-constitutional-rights-coronavirus-970935/

[Disaffected]

1. What good is a constitution

if it can be suspended??

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Yet Barr has been making a BFD about how states' restrictions

on business and social gatherings are oppressive and in violation of people's constitutional rights, and has threatened to sue states and governors for being "excessively" restrictive. So I guess it's OK to keep some poor person (it's always a poor person) accused of selling loose cigarettes, for example, in jail indefinitely without a trial or habeas corpus, but it's not OK to keep Karen from getting her nails done or Bubba from attending a monster truck rally?

[Newest Reality]

7. Amazing.

Is this part of the disaster capitalism where they intentionally send mixed signals to jam people? The cognitive dissonance can be a conditioning factor. Sowing confusion on a regular basis can be like weapon in itself.

I am not being paranoid about it. That's how it would work. The two actions contradict each other and if that is purposeful, which I think it is, we have a dangerous mind game there. What should we expect though, from their ilk?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I don't think it's that complicated; I think the Constitution is just something

that is trotted out when it's useful to their aims and ideology and ignored when it isn't.

[unblock]

12. Exactly we like to call them hypocrites, but it's not hypocrisy at all

They're entirely consistent. They are partisans in the extreme and have but one true principle: anything about them or in defense of their side is good, anything about us or in defense of our side is wrong.

[doc03]

3. It's the Patriot Act again nt

[grumpyduck]

4. The Nazi Party strikes again.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. The Grotesque Orange Pustule does not like democracy ...

[PBC_Democrat]

6. Not Only NO ... But HELL NO!!

NO to suspending ANY of the Bill of Rights ....

Not the 1st amendment
Not the 2nd amendment
Not the 3rd amendment
Not the 4th amendment
Not the 5th amendment
Not the 6th amendment
Not the 7th amendment
Not the 8th amendment
Not the 9th amendment
Not the 10th amendment

None of them ... EVER!

[onecaliberal]

8. This cannot be allowed to happen.

[keithbvadu2]

10. How to kill the idea... insist that it include the Second Amendment.

How to kill the idea... insist that it include the Second Amendment.

[crickets]

15. Keith, you are a genuis. nt

[procon]

11. What clause in the Constitution covers that?

Did these people learn nothing from Bush and his ever expanding Patriot Act? Did we get those rights restored?

Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."



Lessons learned: FAIL

[notinkansas]

13. And the justification for that is?

Did I miss something?

[Skittles]

14. since when did repukes ever need justification for their insane ideas

they are fascist fucks, that's the why of it

[Tom Rinaldo]

16. All I can say is Thank God we took the House. n/t