{"id":43056,"date":"2020-03-21T05:41:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T10:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43056"},"modified":"2020-03-22T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T22:00:44","slug":"politico-doj-seeks-new-emergency-powers-amid-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43056","title":{"rendered":"Politico: DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ignoring the fact that \u201cthe Fourth Amendment requires a judicial determination of probable cause as a prerequisite to extended restraint of liberty following arrest,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=206345582594072284&amp;q=420+U.S.+103&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=1006\">Gerstein v. Pugh<\/a>, 420 U.S. 103, 114 (1975), and reasonable bail, we see this:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politico: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/03\/21\/doj-coronavirus-emergency-powers-140023\">DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic<\/a> by Betsy Woodruff Swan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies \u2014 part of a push for new powers that comes as the coronavirus spreads through the United States.<\/p><p>Documents reviewed by POLITICO detail the department\u2019s requests to lawmakers on a host of topics, including the statute of limitations, asylum and the way court hearings are conducted. POLITICO also reviewed and previously reported on documents seeking the authority to extend deadlines on merger reviews and prosecutions.<\/p><p>. . .<\/p><p>The proposal would also grant those top judges broad authority to pause court proceedings during emergencies. It would apply to \u201cany statutes or rules of procedure otherwise affecting pre-arrest, post-arrest, pre-trial, trial, and post-trial procedures in criminal and juvenile proceedings and all civil process and proceedings,\u201d according to draft legislative language the department shared with Congress. In making the case for the change, the DOJ document wrote that individual judges can currently pause proceedings during emergencies, but that their proposal would make sure all judges in any particular district could handle emergencies \u201cin a consistent manner.\u201d<\/p><p>The request raised eyebrows because of its potential implications for habeas corpus \u2013\u2013 the constitutional right to appear before a judge after arrest and seek release.<\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignoring the fact that \u201cthe Fourth Amendment requires a judicial determination of probable cause as a prerequisite to extended restraint of liberty following arrest,\u201d Gerstein v. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103, 114 (1975), and reasonable bail, we see this: Politico: DOJ &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43056\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43056"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43081,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43056\/revisions\/43081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}