The Due Process Guarantee Act would protect U.S. citizens on U.S. soil from being detained indefinitely without charge, counsel, or trial.
@SenFeinstein and I introduced the DPGA in 2012. It passed with 67 votes, but was somehow removed from the NDAA before final passage.
Ever since 2012, @SenFeinstein and I have been trying to put the DPGA back into each year’s National Defense Authorization Act.
Each year, @SenFeinstein and I have been told we’d get a vote on the DPGA “at some point,” but it has not happened. The time has come!
The American people cannot be asked to wait another moment before their due process rights are protected by the Due Process Guarantee Act.
American citizens arrested on American soil should never be subject to indefinite detention without charge, trial, jury, or counsel.
The DPGA, which I authored along with @SenFeinstein, was pending as an amendment to this year’s National Defense Authorization Act.
The DPGA should have received a vote in the Senate. A total of 68 senators voted against a motion to table the DPGA; they wanted a vote!
Had we voted on the DPGA, it would have passed, protecting the due process rights of hundreds of millions of American citizens.
Why would anyone choose to vote against a bill restoring existing constitutional protections that have been undermined by a bad law?
Why would a senator object to letting the Senate even VOTE on whether to protect Americans’ due process rights?
Why block such a vote, especially when 68 senators wanted to take that vote?
Why would anyone who voted for a nearly identical version of the DPGA in 2012 now deny his colleagues the right to cast this vote?
Our govt isn’t now indefinitely detaining US citizens without charge or trial. But why leave a law in place that purports to authorize that?
Where is the harm in a law saying that Americans can’t be indefinitely detained without charge or trial on US soil?
By contrast, imagine the immense harm that could come from a law that authorizes the indefinite detention of American citizens!
Please tell your senators to support the Due Process Guarantee Act as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. Let’s vote!
What kind of country would we have if we freely allowed our government to detain us indefinitely without charge, trial, or counsel?
The DPGA corrects the mistake Congress made in 2012 and protects Americans from indefinite government detention. facebook.com/plugins/video.…
What’s the best argument you can think of for NOT letting the Senate vote on the Due Process Guarantee Act?
Anyone who doesn’t want the Senate to vote on the Due Process Guarantee Act likes Nickleback. True fact!
Anyone who doesn’t want the Senate to pass the Due Process Guarantee Act enjoys the smell one experiences near a dog food factory.
