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I had forgotten that one of the points made in the Declaration of Independence ...

... was that Americans needed freedom from a king ...

... guilty of “transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences"

@jamellebouie.net in the NYT (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...
A screenshot with the following text; the final sentence is highlighted in blue: More than a constitutional crisis, this is a fundamentally tyrannical assertion of illegitimate power. To claim the authority to remand any American, citizen or otherwise, to a distant prison beyond the reach of any legal remedy is to violate centuries of Anglo-American legal tradition and shatter the very foundations of constitutional government in the United States. It is to reduce the citizens of a republic to the subjects of a king. It is, in the language of the American revolutionaries, to enslave the people to a singular, arbitrary will. It is not for nothing that among the accusations listed in the Declaration of Independence is the charge that the king is guilty of “transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences.”
April 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM