Governor Gavin Newsom made the headlines on Friday for his comments on the resident wrongly deported, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, while he was trying to do news on the prices.
Speaking at a press conference in Central Valley announcing a trial against the Trump administration on its extremely unpredictable trade policies, Newsom answered a question of journalists on Abrego Garcia. He called the controversy to find out if man is a member of a gang “Disconnection of the day”.
Chaos ensued, in particular an information cycle Dem-on-Dem during the holiday weekend that neither Newsom nor the Democrats wanted, in which experts discussed the opportunity to say that Garcia Garcia and the regular procedure crisis represented by his extrajudicial deportation represents a distraction, or a constitutional crisis.
Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD.), Who went to Salvador and was able to speak with Abrego Garcia, resumed Newsom: “I think the Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger in the wind”, adding that, “anyone who cannot defend the constitution and the right of reasonable procedure does not deserve.”
Spoiler Alert: I am a pro -Due process, and dismayed that our executive power pleads for its suspension with regard to immigrants – because, of course, this is the first step to reduce the rights of each.
Calling the fate of Abrego Garcia as a “distraction”, even if it is only on the close question of gang membership, as the Newsom office later said its intention, is completely false. But the apparent separation between Newsom and Van Hollen is both smaller than the media are playing it, and also the most important question of the Democrats who are enlarging at the moment: are the Americans care about the constitution or the stock market?
Americans cannot largely decide what worries them the most. A good part of the people are currently zigzag between the terror that their life economies disappear before their eyes, and the terror that their constitutional rights are in the same trash. It is a moment of all hands on the Democrats, and there should be space to defend both the rights of Abrego Garcia (and by extension of all of us) and repel an insane world trade war that threatens to put America in recession.
But the controversy on the inelegant declaration of Newsom goes to the heart of the democratic division at the moment. This is a party in the disarray that cannot decide to do everything against attacks against democracy, or to keep a laser on the questions of the portfolio which ultimately seem to have given Trump his second term.
People, it’s time to walk and chew gum, as the old adage says.
Abrego Garcia is currently in a Salvadoral prison.
Perhaps not the worst center of confinement of terrorism, or Cecot, where he started his nightmare of deportation in an establishment that the observers of human rights affirm have a story of torture, but he is always locked in a Kafkaesque scenario which could leave it with what seems to be a perpetuity sentence in a foreign prison without committing a crime or being heard by a judge.
This kind of justice to the attraction is common in Salvador, where a three -year emergency declaration made by an authoritarian manager saying that he has repressed the crime of the gangs suspended the rights of the regular procedure, imprisoning around 83,000 people, according to Amnesty International.
It seems a little too close to his home, because President Trump exports and holds people using this same difficult discourse on crime without proof, while Vice-President JD Vance supports online that the regular procedure is simply too bulky and must be deleted for more convenience if the United States must succeed, as Trump has promised, to deport millions of people in the coming years, whether they are criminals or not.
“To say that the administration must observe the” regular procedure “is to raise the question: what process is due is the function of our resources, the public interest, the status of the accused, the proposed punishment and so many other factors,” wrote Vance on social networks last week. “Here is a useful test: ask people who cry about the lack of regular procedure what they are proposing to deal with millions and millions of illegals. With reasonable resources and constraints of administrative judge, does their solution allow us to deport at least a few million people per year? ”
Yikes. Opportunity on the law.
“No process is the new regular procedure,” said Adam Winkler, a UCLA teacher who teaches constitutional law. “The Constitution is clear that anyone in the United States is entitled to regular procedure, it doesn’t matter that he is an immigrant.”
Newsom, in a more thoughtful interview with the Podcaster Bryan Tyler Cohen last week, called a bad obvious overview for the law “The other side of the red line”.
“The founding fathers did not live and did not die for this moment,” said Newsom. “And therefore if you want this democracy, this Democratic Republic, to survive, which must be called with clarity and conviction, period, complete judgment.”
Thus, Newsom and Van Hollen do not disagree on the importance of the case of Abrego Garcia after all. They just can’t agree on the best way to touch the voters.
Most Americans do not really know what a regular procedure is or what the loss will mean for democracy. However, they understand when gas and grocery store cost more, and when their retirement savings flow like a brick in a river.
As the former republican political consultant Mike Madrid said, yes, we have to walk and chew gum, “but do not pretend that they are equal, because they are not.”
Walking, being the economy in this analogy, is much more important, he said.
In a recent survey, 55% of voters said they disapprove of the way Trump manages the economy. Another CNBC survey has revealed that Trump’s notes on economic performance is currently the lowest they have ever been in his political career, after winning the elections on economic issues.
“The fact that Democrats do not lead a reservoir through this issue is the professional fault,” said Madrid, and he is right. The economy has earned Trump the elections, and the economy could lose the next Republicans.
Do you fight for the rights of Abrego Garcia?
“This is a difficult case, because people are really-defend MS-13?” Do they defend, you know, someone who is out of sight, out of the spirit in Salvador? ” Newsom said on Friday’s press conference. “This is exactly the debate (the Republicans), because they do not want this debate on the prices.”
But this is where Trump’s chaos theory becomes so effective. Those who care about democracy must fight both on the economy and the regular procedure – and much more – because we cannot reach another free and equitable election (as the last was) if we allow the executive branch an unlimited power. And, he should go without saying, there is a moral imperative not to abandon Abrego Garcia, or one of these people expelled without regular procedure.
Democrats seem to be stuck in a political state of mind – how do they earn elections – when the moment requires something bigger.
The ability to walk and chew gum, and to explain to voters why the two count.
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