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| Subject: The Fraternal Order of Police’s attack on impeachment Mon Nov 04, 2019 1:20 am | |
| The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), a massive police union that claims over 330,000 members, released a letter earlier this week opposing the impeachment of President Donald Trump. The letter, which denounced vague and unspecified “due process” violations against Trump, reads more like something someone would hear during a prime time Fox News show than the work of an organization that is intimately familiar with law enforcement. “One of the most basic rights afforded to American citizens is the right to due process,” the letter begins. It then accuses “many Members of Congress” of “undermining that trust in due process by ignoring its fair and universal application.” “Just as local law enforcement officers are often convicted in the media,” it claims, members of Congress are also “violating due process to score political points.” Though the letter doesn’t actually go into very much detail about how lawmakers are supposedly violating due process, the last line of the letter makes clear who the FOP hopes to protect. The FOP, the letter concludes, exists to protect due process rights “for all citizens at every level, from the indigent living on the street to the President living in the White House.”
https://www.vox.com/2019/11/1/20943251/fraternal-order-of-polices-impeachment-due-process-sean-hannity |
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