Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Potential Trump Pick for Homeland Security Wants to Send up to 1 Million People to Gitmo
Pema Levy of Mother Jones reveals a sobering possibility of an appointment as Department of Homeland Security Secretary:
"Donald Trump was scheduled to meet Monday with Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr., a Trump supporter and surrogate during the campaign who is now reportedly being considered to head the Department of Homeland Security. Clarke is known for his extreme views on policing—including his conviction that there is a war on cops but no police brutality—and for his attacks on Black Lives Matter. One of his most out-there positions: suspend the constitutional rights of up to a million people, and hold them indefinitely at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Clarke's extremist approach to homeland security is no secret. In his upcoming memoir, Cop Under Fire: Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime and Politics for a Better America, he advocates treating American citizens suspected of terrorism as "enemy combatants," questioning them without an attorney, and holding them indefinitely, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Their cases would be handled by a military tribunal rather than a traditional court."
Donald Trump did meet with Clarke yesterday.
KJ
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2016/11/potential-trump-pick-for-homeland-security-wants-to-send-up-to-1-million-people-to-gitmo.html
