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Angus King: “The Constitution talks about no person, by the way. It says…”

Featuring: Angus King, Independent | U.S. Senate Maine

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American Conversations: Senator Angus King (I-ME), on Paul Revere's Ride

Published | Video Starts at 14:04

It's a collapsing of authority. You're giving the president and ICE the authority to be judge, jury and executioner all in once. And that's not the way our system works. It talks. The Constitution talks about no person, by the way. It says, no person, not to no citizen, no person shall be denied life, liberty or property without due process of law. And the president was out on social media last night just railing about the idea that these people that came in from Haiti and Venezuela under parole by. (14:04–14:15)

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Asserts that the Constitution guarantees due process rights to all persons, not just citizens.

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