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The president and due process

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resident Trump's tweets about due process for two men formerly on his staff accused of domestic violence reveals a misunderstanding of how due process works, according to a legal analyst at CNN. Caroline Polisi says Trump's refusal to acknowledge victims of alleged abuse reveal that his defense is really all about himself.

In this aftermath of #MeToo, it is critically important to make the distinction between courts of law and courts of public opinion. Trump's conflation of the two by way of a disingenuous appeal to "Due Process" is a commonly used, but ultimately dangerous argument, because it damages our collective understanding of the issues, both legal and otherwise.

Due process applies to governmental action, Polisi says, not to the news media, political races or social media. The due process rights owed to the accused are "alive and well in our justice system. They are thriving, in fact," according to Polisi. Her complete commentary is available here.

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