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Don the Con must have been told that by his own lawyers in hundreds of his civil cases yet still can't do it.
Trump: 'Fine' with trying US citizens in military courts
" (CNN) Donald Trump said in an interview Thursday that he would support trying US citizens suspected of terrorism in military tribunals -- a controversial proposal that would likely be challenged as unconstitutional.
The Republican presidential nominee told the Miami Herald that he doesn't "at all" like the idea of trying terrorist suspects in the civilian court system, even though US citizens are constitutionally entitled to due process. He added that he would be "fine" with trying US citizens in military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, the US naval base that is also home to a military prison housing captured terror suspects.
Trump addressed the Guantánamo Bay detention center, climate change and the Zika virus in a wide-ranging interview with the Miami Herald.
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more at: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/politics/donald-trump-military-courts-election-2016/index.html
Glamrock
(11,803 posts)Next he'll suggest a special police force....
angrychair
(8,750 posts)By his own admission:
Threatening or encouraging harm to political rivals
Extraordinary rendition of US citizens to extrajudicial hearings in violation of their Constitutional rights
Building fortified concrete and militarized walls between us and two of our most significant trading partners, friends and allies, Mexico and Canada.
Rounding up and putting certain demographic groups into camps to deport them.
Extorting protection money from our allies and friends
That is only scratching the surface of the world tRump would give us.
RAFisher
(466 posts)Even if we entertained this stupid idea I doubt Trump could even give one reason why this is needed. It's completely unconstitutional so a constitution amendment would be needed. I don't even know why I'm typing this. I'm trying to rebuke the ramblings of a narcissistic egomaniac.
former9thward
(32,121 posts)No trial involved.
The U.S. keeps killing Americans in drone strikes, mostly by accident
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/04/23/the-u-s-keeps-killing-americans-in-drone-strikes-mostly-by-accident/