Laurence Tribe: Stephen Miller ‘Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About,’ Due Process ‘Protects All Persons in the Country’

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TRIBE: “My response is that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Due process, as Justice Scalia said, protects all persons in the country, aliens, citizens, all persons. And if you say, well, it doesn’t protect the people that the president thinks are violent criminals or illegals or whatever he wants to call them, that begs the question, who determines whether somebody is deportable? Who determines whether somebody doesn’t belong here or is a violent criminal? Certainly not the president. He can’t be judge, jury, executioner all at once. He’s trying to take unto himself the powers of every Branch of government, including now the judicial Branch. He says basically, due process is inconvenient. How can we have hearings for all these people? Well, that’s all very nice, I guess. Do you want to amend the Constitution and say that all persons are entitled to due process of law unless it would take too long to treat them fairly? That’s not the Constitution that this country would ever agree to live by, and it’s certainly not the one that this president swore to uphold on January 20th of this year.”