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Do Politicians Really Care About Due Process? by Joseph Backholm – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Do Politicians Really Care About Due Process? by Joseph Backholm

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By Joseph Backholm, Patriot Post, April 28, 2025

Joseph Backholm is Senior Fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic Engagement at Family Research Council.

The reality of sin often leads people with power to do bad things to people who have no power.

President Trump’s most recent presidential campaign promised to secure America’s borders. He promised not only strict enforcement of existing immigration laws, but to deport those who had entered the country illegally under a lax Biden administration. Early in his term he has delivered on those promises aggressively. Some would say too aggressively.

In fact, his efforts to remove illegal immigrants have been the subject of virtually non-stop litigation. With Republicans in control of the White House and both houses of Congress, progressives have turned to the courts in hopes of frustrating President Trump’s agenda, and a record number of federal judges have been cooperative. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) recently noted on his podcast there have been more nationwide injunctions against Trump in the first two months of his presidency than there were in the entire 20th century, with many of them involving immigration. …

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