Last week, the Supreme Court issued what should be two relatively uncontroversial opinions. One affirmed that people faced with ruinous penalties are entitled to a trial; the other said that when they ...
The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution states in part, quote, No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of the law. One of the founding principles of the United ...
-Do non-citizens have the right to due process? - What is the Alien Enemies Act? - Ways to advocate for due process rights of non-citizens Due process is a fundamental right guaranteed by the U.S.
The U.S. is losing its commitment to due process and the rule of law. Due process, rooted in the Magna Carta and codified in the U.S. Constitution, protects citizens from unlawful deprivation of life, ...
Sir William Blackstone famously said that it is "better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer." The maxim expressed by that English jurist was perhaps no more popular in 1765 ...
The administration wants to do what it chooses without checks upon its powers. That is a dictatorship, not a constitutional democracy. Photo from the White House, Facebook The Trump administration ...
Last month a federal court of appeals judge made a startling assertion. “Nazis,” she said, “got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act” than people suspected of being members of a Venezuelan ...
Hans von Spakovsky was an authority on a wide range of issues for Heritage—including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration. Immigration cases are civil rather than criminal ...