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February 11: Gillibrand offers Trump ‘due process’ hearings on sexual assault allegations against him
https://thinkprogress.org/gillibrand-trump-sexual-assault-38eba3d3410a/
February 12: Ava Duvernay [American film director, producer, screenwriter, film marketer, and film distributor] clapped back at Donald Trump this weekend after the president tried to defend two former White House staffers who had to resign due to domestic violence allegations.z
Duvernay pushed back at the president’s hypocrisy in asking for “due process” when he failed to do the same for the Central Park Five in 1989.
The infamous and tragic case involved five black and latino teens who were wrongfully convicted for raping and beating a jogger in Central Park. After spending over a decade in prison, they were eventually released in 2002 after DNA evidence proved they were not guilty.
Trump was one of the most vocal during the height of the case. He even reportedly spent over $85,000 on full-page ads in New York City’s major daily newspapers calling for the death penalty of the teens.
Trump still maintains they were guilty as recently as 2016.
https://www.essence.com/celebrity/ava-duvernay-trump-hypocrisy-central-park-five
February 13: The ex-wife of former White House speechwriter David Sorensen — who resigned last week amid allegations that he abused her — is disputing President Donald Trump's suggestion that Sorenson didn't receive due process.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/ex-wife-accused-wh-aide-rips-trump-suggesting-he-didn-n847531
February 23: Just a few weeks ago, after the resignation of two White House staffers over abuse claims and allegations against a GOP mega-donor, President Donald Trump tweeted, “Peoples [sic] lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false … There is no recovery for someone falsely accused — life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?”
Uttered by a prominent man facing multiple abuse allegations of his own, Trump’s appeal to due process echoes the rallying cry of many (mostly) men in the same circumstance. It is the safety net they hope will break their fall.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/23/from-trump-to-lebsock-cries-of-due-process-erode-legal-system/
February 28: During a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers on Wednesday, President Trump made several comments that irked NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, who told Fox News host Martha MacCallum it made for "very good TV," but "very bad policy."
Trump said that when it comes to people who are dangers to themselves or others, "take the firearms first, and then go to court," later adding, "Take the guns first, go through due process second." This amounts to "punishing innocent Americans and stripping from them their Constitutional rights without due process and making them pay for what the political class has done," Loesch said. Due process "must be respected," she said, as it's "a foundational principle of this country."
http://theweek.com/speedreads/758267/nras-dana-loesch-wasnt-fan-trumps-due-process-comments
March 2: Trump’s Due Process ... The president understands the words to mean protections for his white guy buddies.
This is the same Trump who can’t stop talking about executing suspected drug dealers. It’s the same Trump who pardoned convicted former Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the same Trump who persistently threatened to jail his political opponents, including Hillary Clinton, if he won the presidency. This is the man who spent a small fortune taking out ads seeking the death penalty for the Central Park Five before they had even been tried and refused to acknowledge when they were exonerated.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/trump-uses-due-process-to-mean-bonus-protections-for-his-white-guy-buddies-nobody-else.html
March 5: Sarah Sanders clarified comments President Trump made last week about suspending due process to confiscate guns from criminals during Monday’s White House press briefing.
“He wants to make sure that if somebody is potentially harmful to themselves or other people, that we have the ability to expedite that process,” she continued. “We certainly still want to have due process, but we want to make sure that it’s not tied up for months and months and months and someone that could potentially be dangerous is allowed to have a gun without us being able to expedite that process.”
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/05/white-house-clarifies-trump-due-process-comments/
March 11: Trump's complicated past with the death penalty and due process ... President Donald Trump suggested imposing the death penalty for drug dealers at a Pennsylvania rally Saturday night, praising countries like China and Indonesia for their harsh punishments for drug offenses.
"When I was in China and other places, by the way, I said, 'Mr. President, do you have a drug problem? No, no, no, we do not. ... I said what do you attribute that to? Well, the death penalty,'" he recounted on Saturday night. "Honestly, I don't know that the United States frankly is ready for it. They should be ready for it."
For much of his public life, Trump has consistently called for capital punishment against some of America's most high-profile criminals. But he's done so with limited concern for due process -- in both the justice system and the method of execution itself -- which courts have shaped and ethicists have debated in the US for decades. ... Trump has called for the death penalty more than a dozen times in the last five years
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/03/politics/death-penalty-trump/index.html
March 20: Trump Is About to Get a Dose of Due Process From Summer Zervos
Zervos, who is only seeking $2,914 in damages, cannot be bought off. She wants either an admission or a jury verdict.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/due-process-closes-in-on-president-donald-trump-as-judge-lets-summer-zervos-suit-move-ahead
April 4: The Trump administration’s new immigration plan is a crime against due process
The Washington Post reported this week that the Trump administration plans to impose quotas and other new requirements on immigration judges to make sure, in the words of the Justice Department directive, "cases are completed in a timely, efficient and effective manner."
The mandate will require judges to clear 700 cases per year to receive a "satisfactory" rating — an increase from the average of 678 cases per year, according to a Justice Department spokesman. It will also penalize judges for scheduling cases with too much time in between or for referring more than 15 percent of cases to appellate courts. These changes take effect Oct. 1.
http://www.dbknews.com/2018/04/05/immigration-quotas-trump-due-process/
April 10: Monday, after the news broke that federal investigators had raided the office, hotel room, and home of Trump's longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen, the president called it “an attack on our country, in a true sense,” and “an attack on what we all stand for.”
It was a curious reversal for a politician who, from the start of his campaign, has ridiculed due process protections as mere "political correctness," but one that has become so common over the first two years of his presidency that it now goes practically unremarked. As a candidate in 2016, Trump declared that “an attack on law enforcement is an attack on all Americans." But no chief executive has attacked law enforcement more frequently than Trump.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/donald-trumps-strange-justice/557708/
April 17: Supreme Court strikes portion of immigration law used by Trump administration
The Tuesday morning ruling by the Supreme Court delivered a blow to a Trump administration effort to make deportation easier and faster while handing a victory to immigration advocates like CASA de Maryland.
"We know that it's a small victory, but it's still a victory because all of our immigrant community members deserve due process, and this is a victory that could push back the Trump deporting machine," said Lydia Walther-Rodriquez, with CASA de Maryland.
http://www.wbaltv.com/article/supreme-court-strikes-portion-of-immigration-law-used-by-trump-administration/19843563
May 31: Trump's sustained attacks on American rights
Over the past 24 months, Trump has scorned judges, derided the American court system, and trampled on all manner of constitutional principles. Trump has especially ridiculed due process of law, the bedrock against government's arbitrary denial of a person's life, liberty or property.
Critics warn that denunciations that once seemed so aberrational may be seeping into the American psyche and influencing how government operates.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/26/politics/trump-rights-due-process-curiel/index.html
June 25: Trump Doubles Down on No Due Process for Migrants
But Sen. King says ‘they have a right to establish their claim of asylum’
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/trump-doubles-no-due-process-migrants
July 5: President Trump Again Calls for Stripping Migrants at the Border of Due Process
In a series of tweets on Thursday morning, President Donald Trump again called for removing immigrants who cross the border illegally without providing them with legal recourse.
“Law Enforcement at the Border is doing a great job, but the laws they are forced to work with are insane,” Trump wrote, after demanding that Congress pass “smart, fast and reasonable” immigration laws. “When people, with or without children, enter our Country, they must be told to leave without our Country being forced to endure a long and costly trial. Tell the people ‘OUT,’ and they must leave, just as they would if they were standing on your front lawn.”
This is not the first time Trump has suggested stripping immigrants of their due process rights. On June 24, he tweeted that when they “invade” our country, the U.S. “must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came.”
http://time.com/5330911/donald-trump-migrants-due-process/
July 27: Trump's Views On Due Process Are Straight Out Of Slavery
The president and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have no patience for what they regard as the niceties of the Constitution when it comes to immigration.
The Trump administration’s immigration policy appears to be on a collision course with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was certified 150 years ago today. In the latest episodes of “zero tolerance,” it was just revealed that 700 families have not been reunited despite a court-ordered deadline, while nearly 500 parents have already been summarily deported without their children. While such heartless treatment shocks the conscience, it is the sadly predictable outcome of a strategy that favors administrative expedience over humane values. President Trump himself tweeted that border crossers should be sent back “without judges or court cases,” which recalls a shameful period in our history when a different group of desperate refugees was similarly subjected to immediate removal, with no semblance of due process, under a policy of “zero tolerance.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-views-on-due-process-are-straight-out-of-slavery
October 5: Trump Pushes Due Process For Some, 'Lock' Them Up For Others
President Trump says the fight over his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, is about more than just the nation's highest court. He says it's about how America treats the accused.
Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual misconduct decades ago, allegations he adamantly denies.
Trump tweeted Thursday that "Due Process, Fairness and Common Sense are now on trial!"
... a woman jogging in New York's Central Park was brutally beaten and raped.
Five black and Latino teenagers, known as the Central Park Five, were charged with the crime.
Before they were brought to trial, Trump took out full-page ads calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty in the state. The ads called for the city government to "unshackle" law enforcement officers from concerns about "police brutality."
"The problem with our society is the victim has absolutely no rights and the criminal has unbelievable rights — unbelievable rights," Trump told Larry King in a CNN interview in 1989 discussing the ads.
Years later, the five men were exonerated by DNA evidence, and another man confessed to the crime. The five reached a settlement with the city in 2014 for $41 million.
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/05/654347194/trump-pushes-due-process-for-some-for-others-lock-them-up
November 16: CNN gets temporary due process ruling in Trump case
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/cnn-gets-temporary-due-process-ruling-in-trump-case
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