On the inauguration day, President Trump swore, just like his predecessors, to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
But in recent days he has said that he is not so sure of that dedication.
In an interview with NBC News that was broadcast on Sunday, Mr. Trump said “I don’t know” when he was asked if he had to maintain the constitution because his administration is trying to perform the largest deporting operation in American history.
His remark came as part of a broader exchange about the right process and who is offered, although the fifth amendment guarantees it on American soil for every individual. Mr. Trump repeatedly said that he was not sure if everyone is entitled to the right process.
Mr Trump’s extraordinary attitude on the issue gives a window in his conviction that the legal system should not prevent him from immediately deporting people who have entered the United States illegally.
On Monday, Mr. Trump once again held doubts about the right process and how it would hinder his massive deportation campaign, which shows that he has little patience for individuals to have their day in court.
“The courts have suddenly, out of nowhere, they have said that you might have trials,” the President said in the Oval Office on Monday. “We’re going to have five million tests?”
The rhetoric of the president and his top staff is part of a strategy to defend the vision of the administration for a far -reaching and aggressive deportation campaign. Even while they have been dealing with legal setbacks, of which they have ignored, Mr Trump and his allies have depicted their efforts as needed for national security.
Mr. Trump regularly paints migrants as ‘samples’ and ‘murderers’, who describe them as ‘some of the worst people on earth’. Last week, civil servants stood on the northern lawn of the White House with posters in Mug Shot style of migrants who were arrested and accused of committing crimes.
“I was chosen to get them away here and the courts like to do it,” said Mr Trump in the NBC news interview.
To accelerate the process, Mr Trump called on the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century War Law, to deport Venezuelans who has supposed to be part of a street gang. Last week, a federal judge permanently excluded the Trump government to call on the law, which was used only three times before in American history.
Mr. Trump has also ignored A statement by the Supreme Court That trains his administration to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a migrant who wrongly sent the government to a prison for terrorists in El Salvador. Mr Garcia remains in El Salvador., And some Democrats have argued that Mr Trump put the country into a constitutional crisis by ignoring the order.
The president has also taken to judges who ruled against him, called for their accusation and in turn further criticism from Democrats and legal critics, who say that he undermines the independence of the judiciary. His attacks even earned a rare reprimand from chief judge John G. Roberts Jr., who said, “Accusation is not a suitable answer to disagreement with regard to a judicial decision.”
But Mr. Trump has long had a hostile relationship with the judicial system and feels further authorized to act after dozens of criminal prosecution after leaving his office in 2021. If candidate teased Mr Trump that he would be a dictator on his first day in office (his assistants said he would be a joke), and made it clear that he made the Sn prize of Juditie.
Now Mr. Trump and his top employees no signs of decline in this fight.
“The right of” appropriate process “is to protect citizens against their government, not to protect foreign invaders against removal,” Stephen Miller, one of Mr. Trump’s top advisers, was posted on social media on Monday. “The correct process guarantees the rights of a criminal defendant who is confronted with prosecution, no illegal alien deportation.”
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