Trump, in a new interview, says he doesn’t know if he backs due process rights:
President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he does not know whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike deserve that guarantee.
He also said he does not think military force will be needed to make Canada the “51st state” and played down the possibility he would look to run for a third term in the White House.
The comments in a wide-ranging, and at moments combative, interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” came as the Republican president’s efforts to quickly enact his agenda face sharper headwinds with Americans just as his second administration crossed the 100-day mark, according to a recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Trump, however, made clear that he is not backing away from a to-do list that he insists the American electorate broadly supported when they elected him in November.
Here are some of the highlights from the interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker that was taped Friday at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida and aired Sunday.
Critics on the left have tried to make the case that Trump is chipping away at due process in the United States. Most notably, they cite the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man who was living in Maryland when he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and imprisoned without communication.
Trump says Abrego Garcia is part of a violent transnational gang. The Republican president has sought to turn deportation into a test case for his campaign against illegal immigration despite a Supreme Court order saying the administration must work to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S.
Asked in the interview whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens both deserve due process as laid out in the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, Trump was noncommittal.
“I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know,” Trump said when pressed by Welker.
The Fifth Amendment provides “due process of law,” meaning a person has certain rights when it comes to being prosecuted for a crime. Also, the 14th Amendment says no state can “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” --->READ MORE HERE
Trump unsure whether non-citizens are afforded Constitutional right to due process:
President Trump says the courts are preventing him from delivering on his campaign promise to rid the nation of violent illegal immigrants, adding that he doesn’t know if the non-citizens must be afforded due process rights.
Mr. Trump said he relies on Attorney General Pam Bondi and his administration’s lawyers to resolve constitutional challenges to his deportation push.
“The big emergency right now is that we have thousands of people that we want to take out and we have judges that want everybody to go to court,” Mr. Trump said in a recorded interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday.
Asked if the due process rights of migrants swept up in the deportation cases are protected under the Constitution, Mr. Trump answered, “I don’t know. I’m not a lawyer.”
The president said he is concerned that granting due process rights to every migrant he seeks to deport would bring things to a screeching halt and, ultimately, make the nation less safe.
“We have millions of people, we are going to have millions of court cases?” Mr. Trump said. “Figure two weeks a court case, it would be 300 years.”
Mr. Trump has tested his deportation powers and faced stiff pushback from the courts.
The latest legal challenge came last week after U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., a Trump appointee, permanently blocked the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelans it has labeled criminals from the Southern District of Texas. --->READ MORE HERE
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