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My concern is the lack of due process [1]. By changing government programs that directly or indirectly benefits citizens without due process. The US will be wit
by rawgabbit 2y ago
My concern is the lack of due process [1]. By changing government programs that directly or indirectly benefits citizens without due process. The US will be without rule of law. It will become a winner take all situation. The winner of an election will be above the law. And the loser be potentially denied property and/or incarcerated simply for being in the wrong political party.
[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/due_process https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/due_process
While, thus, some law-based relationship or expectation of continuation had to be shown before a federal court would say that process was "due," constitutional “property” was no longer just what the common law called “property”; it now included any legal relationship with the state that state law regarded as in some sense an “entitlement” of the citizen. Licenses, government jobs protected by civil service, or places on the welfare rolls were all defined by state laws as relations the citizen was entitled to keep until there was some reason to take them away, and therefore process was due before they could be taken away.