I welcome Professor John Yoo of the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas and Berkeley Law School. However, I'm going to call upon John in his youth. He also served in the George W. Bush administration.
In a recent article, Professor Yoo writes about challenges to the United States’ understanding of due process and the courts made by men who insist upon being violent, a threat to the United States, and may or may not be out of place (for example, terrorism), or for gangland activity, or coming into the United States without documents.
With all of that, we come to recent events. One: the deportation of so-called Tren de Aragua terrorists by ICE to El Salvador, where they're jailed and their fate is determined by a man named, Nayib Bukele, who is a president of another country, not our country.
Two: a man from Maryland named Ábrego García, who everybody acknowledges now was incorrectly detained and transported also to El Salvador. These questions all bring up what has to be done. And John Yoo has published a piece recalling how the Trump, the Biden, and the Bush administration early on had to deal with these kinds of cases.
The Alien Enemies Act is what is cited by the Trump administration. The challenge is to define what is a war and what is not a war. What is the important distinction between declaring a war and getting Congress to agree, and not declaring a war and using war-like powers?
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“Relief for Trump in sight — if Supreme Court special session reins in rogue judges” by John Yoo at New York Post
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