Ben Cline joins list of MAGA ‘lawyers’ who oppose basic due process

MAGA Congressman Ben Cline, supposedly a lawyer, is joining the chorus of other supposed MAGA Republican lawyers who think due process is a luxury.

“Activist judges are overstepping their bounds and blocking the President from enforcing the law. That’s judicial activism, not justice,” Cline tweeted on Monday, ahead of a sensational House Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration-related crime.

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I’m overstating it calling the hearing “sensational.” The MAGA Republicans who organized the hearing were hoping it would be “sensational,” but the hearing didn’t seem to register with the media, not getting any coverage that I can find on the ol’ Googler.

Poor Ben. Because he wants you to know, he thinks due process needs to be a thing of the past.

“These activist judges care more about their political agenda and protecting criminals than defending law-abiding Americans,” he tweeted on Tuesday, sharing a video of him “asking” questions of Cindy Romero, whose video of armed Venezuelan immigrants trying to break into a neighbor’s apartment in Aurora, Colo., last year became a 2024 presidential campaign issue.

The video led to wild claims from Donald Trump and JD Vance that Aurora had been taken over by immigrants.

The claims were widely debunked, but you can’t really totally debunk anything that MAGAs want to believe to be true, facts or not.

It was the debunked claims about an immigrant “invasion” that Cline “asked” Romero about.

I’m using the quotation marks there because it’s not really “asking” somebody something when you’ve worked out ahead of time what you’re going to say.

That’s called a “performance.”

Anyway, the “activist judges” that Cline is so concerned about are ruling against the Trump administration on their ongoing deportations of alleged undocumented immigrants without so much as a hearing.

I don’t know anybody personally who wouldn’t be in favor of deporting actual criminal immigrants, but our system of due process gives everybody here the right to a court hearing to determine their status.

You’d think that an alleged lawyer like Ben Cline would be on board with that.