Checks and balances are at the heart of American democracy. The founders established the principle of government under which separate branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches and ...

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Members of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, assisted by the FBI and other federal agencies, perform an arrest in Miami on May 28. The Honolulu ...

Article 92 of the uniform code military justice states members of the military, National Guard, Border Patrol, ICE agents (being federal employees) are required to follow a lawful order. Conversely ...

I am writing concerning the lack of due process for individuals arrested that are accused of being in the country illegally or the legal noncitizen residents who are perceived as having broken the law ...

You should not call detainees 'illegals' Aug. 6 -- To the Editor: In his July 30 letter to the editors, Mr. Donald Coker expressed his outrage that the article “ICE flights at Pease raise concerns in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Due process “dismissed as the refrain of woke liberals” Re: “Trump’s bid to free Tina Peters shows disrespect for due process,” May 11 commentary, and ...

To the Editor: Firstly, Representative Becca Balint has made it exceedingly clear that she is not concerned with the due process rights of American Citizens. However, she has repeatedly demonstrated a ...

Re: “Trump says he’s leaving due process to his lawyers” (May 5, A1): So, President Donald Trump doesn’t know whether he has to obey the Constitution? Did he bother to read it before taking an oath to ...

As someone who escaped communist Czechoslovakia and became an American citizen, I am writing with both concern and sadness in response to the letter titled “Due process required under Constitution" in ...