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