Undue Process
Allison Gill
There’s a reason we didn’t “lock him up” on January 7th, 2021.
Due process.
It’s the same argument made by the Supreme Court liberal justices during oral arguments on presidential immunity, and ultimately in their dissent. Trump and his lawyers were insisting that if the court did not crown him king, that roving bands of future rogue prosecutors would bog down the presidency with criminal prosecutions after leaving office. Justice Sotomayor said "There is no failsafe system of government, meaning, we have a judicial system that has layers and layers of protection for the accused in the hopes that the innocent will go free. We fail. Routinely. But we succeed more often than not. In the vast majority of cases, the innocent do go free. But we still fail. We've executed innocent people. Having said that, Alito went through a step by step of all the mechanisms that could potentially fail. In the end, if it fails completely, it's because we've destroyed our democracy on our own.”
In our two-tiered system of justice, the wealthy and powerful often have more access to the protections of due process than the rest of us. Due process is what Trump exploited to delay his trials. It’s what corrupt judge Aileen Cannon manipulated to Trump’s advantage in the classified documents case. It’s what good guys bend over backwards for, and what bad guys run roughshod over.
And now with the second Trump administration - despite having benefited himself from due process - we are seeing a pattern of completely ignoring due process at the peril of democracy itself. There are four clear examples of this, and counting.
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