ACLU Ready to Fight Trump's Policies in Court

By Jeralyn, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Wed Nov 09, 2016 at 05:50:59 PM EST
Tags: Presidency In Crisis, ACLU (all tags)

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The ACLU says Donald Trump is a one-man constitutional crisis and it is ready to fight him in court.

In the event of a Trump presidency, we have undertaken a constitutional analysis of his most controversial policy proposals. These include his pledges to deport over 11 million undocumented immigrants, to ban Muslims from entering the United States, to surveil American Muslims and their houses of worship, to torture again, and to revise libel laws. We have found them all wanting, to say the least. According to our analysis, Trump’s proposals taken together would violate the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution.

ACLU lawyers have prepared this legal analysis of his positions. [More...]

The ACLU warns:

If Donald Trump is elected president and tries to implement any of these proposed policies, he and the U.S. government will spark legal and constitutional challenges that will require all hands on deck at the ACLU. The ACLU and its more than 300 attorneys in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C., stand ready to challenge and impede implementation of his proposals, should he see them through. (Donald Trump, after all, changes his positions all of the time.)
Have no doubt about it: Donald Trump’s policies, if implemented, would trigger a constitutional crisis. But you can also be certain that the ACLU will fight in the courts, in Congress, and in the public square to preserve the rights guaranteed to all people by the Constitution and our Bill of Rights.
Donald Trump may believe the president is above the law, but he is mistaken. As always, we are standing guard to ensure that the rule of law always remains stronger than the rule of one man.

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We are also donating tonight (5.00 / 1) (#1)
by Peter G on Wed Nov 09, 2016 at 06:47:40 PM EST

to Planned Parenthood. Very eager to find out what transpires at my ACLU Board of Directors meeting tomorrow. Thank you for the suggestion that TL readers donate to ACLU also.

Oldest daughter reports she is in a crowd (5.00 / 1) (#2)
by Peter G on Wed Nov 09, 2016 at 08:09:55 PM EST

outside Tr*mp Tower in NYC, where they are chanting "Climate change is real." Among other things. I just got back from a vigil/protest in the park in our little suburban Philly town.

: Live video from the NYC protest (none / 0) (#3)
by Peter G on Wed Nov 09, 2016 at 08:19:28 PM EST

is available here. "We reject the President-Elect."

: protests in my city too (none / 0) (#4)
by linea on Wed Nov 09, 2016 at 08:26:10 PM EST

very large ant-trump protest downtown. from the signs it looks like Bernie supporters, Black Lives Matters activists, and Socialist Alternative Party (that's my councilmember's party). and of course young men wearing Guy Fawkes masks displaying their middle finger to the news camera.