ACLU Ready to Defend Against Trump's "One-Man Constitutional Crisis"
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is readying for “an all-hands-on-deck moment” should presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump—a “one-man constitutional crisis,” according to the rights group—be elected to the White House.
Trump’s policy proposals, including pledges to deport over 11 million undocumented immigrants; to ban Muslims from entering the United States; to surveil American Muslims and their houses of worship; to bring back waterboarding and other forms of torture; and to expand libel laws in order to sue media outlets “and win money,” would violate the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Amendments, according to ACLU executive director Anthony Romero on Thursday.
For example, Romero wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post:
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“Taken together, his statements and policy proposals would blatantly violate the inalienable rights guaranteed by the Constitution, federal and international law, and the basic norms of a free and decent society,” Romero added in a post at Medium.
Romero’s claims are backed up by the 27-page Trump Memos (pdf), a legal analysis of some of the real estate tycoon’s most egregious proposals.
Along with the op-ed and Trump Memos, the ACLU also launched on Thursday a petition that reads: “I pledge to speak up, stand up, call out, and hold elected officials and candidates accountable to the Constitution. Trying to win an election is no excuse to disregard or dismiss the Bill of Rights.”
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The ACLU’s analysis comes on the heels of a report from the Sierra Club earlier this week, which warned that Trump’s “failure to acknowledge basic climate science wouldn’t just leave him isolated on the world stage as President, it would undermine our relationships with key allies and threaten our ability to work effectively internationally.”
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