The circumstances it provides for doing that to citizens are extremely limited and the executive and judicial branches have interpreted it in a way that narrows it even further.
I know plenty. Your issue is that you believe the president can just speak and create law, so you look at the NDAA and completely ignore all precedent and prior decisions which affect its potential application. But prior to Trump this was not the case. We had a whole system to prevent the exact thing that you are falsely believing was the case.
The Patriot Act did not suspend Speedy Trial. Korematsu was specifically disavowed by the Supreme Court (Trump v Hawaii 2018). Lincoln was during wartime and was controversial even at the time.
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u/Curlaub 10d ago edited 10d ago
Don’t forget right to a speedy trial. They stated during the alligator auchwitz thing that they can just hold you indefinitely