Pete Buttigieg Nails Trump With 1 Point About Due Process: 'I'm Not A Lawyer...'
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The former transportation secretary took the stage Tuesday at a town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is posing an impeccable argument about due process to President Donald Trump, whose administration mistakenly sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a notorious prison in El Salvador and has defied a U.S. Supreme Court order to facilitate his return.
Buttigieg took the stage Tuesday at a town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and condemned the administration for its seeming indifference to due process, a constitutional right that affords individuals a fair legal proceeding before being deprived of life, liberty or property.
“I’m not a lawyer,” said Buttigieg. “You shouldn’t have to be to know that due process is afforded to everybody, because it is through that due process that our society can make decisions … about what happens to you if you are, in fact, held to be in violation of the law.”
“As, ironically, happened to the president himself when he went through probable cause, due process, jury — all that,” he continued, referring to Trump’s conviction last year in New York on 34 criminal charges of falsifying business records in a historic hush money trial.
Abrego Garcia had been living in the U.S. for roughly 14 years but was deported in March despite a federal protective order from 2019 declaring he couldn’t be sent back to his birth country due to fears of gang retribution. The Department of Justice has acknowledged his removal was due to an “administrative error.”
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