{"id":135806,"date":"2018-01-11T21:42:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T04:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135806"},"modified":"2018-01-11T23:59:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T06:59:11","slug":"hoist-by-his-own-twittard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/11\/hoist-by-his-own-twittard.html","title":{"rendered":"Hoist by his own Twittard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump keeps getting into trouble based on things he’s said, and that’s now swung around to the prisoners at Guantanamo. The US Supreme Court has allowed a variety of shenanigans around Gitmo based on the idea that there is some vague sense of due process to deal with the people who are being stashed there.<\/p>\n

But a group of the prisoners there are now suing in federal court over their detention, saying that Trump’s repeated statements that as far as he’s concerned, they’re locked in and he’s throwing away the key, regardless of any formal testing and disposition of their individual capture and imprisonment, violates that SCOTUS premise, and the constitutional requirement that all people<\/i> in the purview of the US government are entitled to due process.<\/p>\n

Will this go anywhere? Hard to say. But if it does, it will be part and parcel of Donald Trump’s inability to keep his mouth shut (or his sense that he needs to keep throwing red meat to his nativist base, whatever the cost).<\/p>\n


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Donald Trump keeps getting into trouble based on things he’s said, and that’s now swung around to the prisoners at Guantanamo. 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