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   Harvard Law’s Noah Feldman has argued, even the Emancipation   
   Proclamation was likely unconstitutional. But it was certainly neither   
   unjust nor unwise.   
      
   Fortunately, key Trump officials are pushing back against the narrative   
   pushed by the Left and the castrated Right on this issue.   
      
   Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, long the president’s   
   point person on immigration, understood the situation much more clearly,   
   saying on X:   
      
   Biden imported 15M+ illegals in 4 years. Democrats believe each alien   
   should get a lengthy federal trial before being sent back. After we   
   scour the country to find them. Because they are all evading arrest. A   
   typical trial would take months to complete. Not counting appeals. This   
   would mean even if we shut down our entire federal court system to do   
   nothing else the process that the Democrats demand would take multiple   
   centuries to complete. Which Democrats understand. Because they don’t   
   want any aliens removed. They want them all registered—to vote. The   
   judicial process is for Americans. Immediate deportation is for illegal   
   aliens. If you break into someone’s house you don’t get to spend months   
   or years debating your presence. Trespassers must go. And they must go now.   
      
   A day later Vice President Vance, posting on X, doubled down in the same   
   fashion, making clear that he understood exactly what was at stake in   
   these cases.   
      
   To say the administration must observe “due process” is to beg the   
   question: what process is due is a function of our resources, the public   
   interest, the status of the accused, the proposed punishment, and so   
   many other factors.… Here’s a useful test: ask the people weeping over   
   the lack of due process what precisely they propose for dealing with   
   Biden’s millions and millions of illegals. And with reasonable resource   
   and administrative judge constraints, does their solution allow us to   
   deport at least a few million people per year? If the answer is no,   
   they’ve given their game away. They don’t want border security. They   
   don’t want us to deport the people who’ve come into our country   
   illegally. They want to accomplish through fake legal process what they   
   failed to accomplish politically.   
      
   Rule of law is indeed on trial — just not in the way that the Left   
   believes. The procedural antics the Left conveniently describes as “rule   
   of law” have now been exposed as a multi-decade scheme to nullify   
   elections and democratic choice — to get done through the power of “law”   
   what the Democrats cannot accomplish politically at the ballot box.   
   Until that changes, the GOP is absolutely correct to reject this   
   Democrat-enabling version of “rule of law” and the hapless   
   “conservative” establishment that has run cover for it.   
      
   Americans had no “due process” when Biden let in these millions of   
   illegals — often flying them into cities, including my own, in the dead   
   of night, while refusing to let citizens know what was happening. A   
   regime in which one party can import millions of people illegally   
   without resistance but the other party cannot restore order by deporting   
   these same illegals just as expeditiously is many things; but it is not   
   a democracy, and it does not have rule of law. This   
   Blackstone-for-morons attitude is just what Americans voted against in   
   electing Trump.   
      
   It is the typical bureaucrat’s mindset that process must always outweigh   
   substance.  But if the supposedly neutral “rule of law” process   
   consistently delivers liberal results even against the wishes of voters,   
   we must challenge the legitimacy of the process itself.   
      
      
   Jeremy Carl is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and a former   
   Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior under President Trump. His   
   book The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism is Tearing America   
   Apart, has just been released by Regnery/Skyhorse Publishing.   
      
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