Every Accused Citizen Deserves a Trial
By Dianne Feinstein (deceased)
April 2012
On New Year’s Eve, 2011, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act. The act authorizes the U.S. military to arrest and detain American citizens indefinitely without trial and to ship them anywhere in the world. The law obliterates the constitutional guarantees that support our adversarial system of justice. Senator Feinstein, one of the few outspoken opponents of these provisions, has introduced the Due Process Guarantee Act to repeal this effort to vest the military with unbridled power to arrest and hold individuals incommunicado.
