The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies — part of a push for new powers that comes as the coronavirus spreads through the United States.
Documents reviewed by POLITICO detail the department’s requests to lawmakers on a host of topics, including the statute of limitations, asylum and the way court hearings are conducted. POLITICO also reviewed and previously reported on documents seeking the authority to extend deadlines on merger reviews and prosecutions.
One of the requests to Congress would allow the department to petition a judge to indefinitely detain someone during an emergency.
The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies — part of a push for new powers that comes as the coronavirus spreads through the United States.
Documents reviewed by POLITICO detail the department’s requests to lawmakers on a host of topics, including the statute of limitations, asylum and the way court hearings are conducted. POLITICO also reviewed and previously reported on documents seeking the authority to extend deadlines on merger reviews and prosecutions.
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Mar 22, 2020 @ 23:06:45
Marti
It seems obvious to me that, after wave after wave of epidemic, Coronavirus is another big ol’ scam. These epidemics take…..er, hours…to gestate. Has any virus (lacking metabolism, i.e. DEAD) actually been isolated?
The original [Coronavirus] was “discovered” in 1918 (getting a mention in a 1993 Simpsons episode) and blamed on “too much sun”. Isn’t that interesting? Troops come back from war. Might prefer the beach to work. We can’t have that!
Corona: sun – Babylonian Brotherhood connection?
Virus – corruption “for the greater good”?
Will America revert to a dictatorship under “special emergency powers”? Sorry, its already a dictatorship, but the senate if forced in going through the motions of “oversight”. Yeah, I could well see Trump at the helm…..FOREVER.
Keep an eye out for my latest article (a few weeks away I think) “First HIV, then Ebollox, now Simpsons’ Coronavirus, What Next?”
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OT (in great need of toilet paper)
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Mar 22, 2020 @ 03:13:26
NO, AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENTS DO NOT OUTPERFORM “OPEN SOCIETIES” IN A CRISIS (excerpt)
China, accurate information does not flow freely and certainly not upwards to the decision-makers.
The same thing is true, albeit with lesser such pressures, in any government (and corporate) bureaucracy.
Neither are the bits and pieces of local information are put together and condensed properly. Nobody in such hierarchies has an incentive to do “the right thing,” especially for common people.
The incentive is to watch their own backs. As in all bureaucracies, especially political ones, the number one priority is to avoid getting caught with responsibility for something that turns out bad. Keep your head down and follow the rules; make sure the higher-ups are satisfied, on whatever ground, and keep your subjects in check.
If you don’t play it safe, you’ll be sacrificed at the stake if something goes wrong.
It is true, as Danielle Pletka argues, that dictatorships only make pandemics worse.
Swift, forceful action on the *wrong* information, or without respect for human life and liberties, is and can be nothing but disastrous.
History is littered with examples of such regimes, and their track record is without exception abhorrent.
https://mises.org/power-market/no-authoritarian-governments-do-not-outperform-open-societies-crisis
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