Due Process is the constitutional promise that a person cannot be deprived of life, rights, liberty, or property unless and until certain legal procedures are followed. According to numerous sources, including Reason, the U.S. Dept. of Justice now seeks to suspend constitutional rights of Due Process, regarding:
"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 process and proceedings".
In other words, DOJ is proposing a suspension of Due Process on all court cases, civil and criminal.
DOJ's proposal in response to the Coronapocalypse is eerily similar to the Reichstag Fire Decree, imposed by Adolph Hitler in February 1933, in response to that "crises". Many people today do not realize that Germany after WWI was governed under constitution very similar to that of the United States. Hitler correctly understood that constitutional rights, and in particular the right to Due Process, was a roadblock to his totalitarian plans.
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