Talk:Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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Held indefinitely without trial Trump DoJ request, add here ?

Trump's DoJ asked Congress to allow chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies.

In one request, the DoJ asked Congress to give the attorney general (William Barr, implied in ref) and top judges broad powers that would allow them to pause court proceedings during emergencies or “whenever the district court is fully or partially closed by virtue of any natural disaster, civil disobedience, or other emergency situation.” These new powers would apply to “any 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.”

The DoJ’s requests are unlikely to make it through a Democratic-led House.

• Betsy Woodruff Swan, DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic; One of the requests to Congress would allow the department to petition a judge to indefinitely detain someone during an emergency. March 21, 2020 Politico.com

X1\ (talk) 20:46, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

More current, from Snopes:

• Bethania Palma Did DOJ Propose Rollback of Defendants’ Rights During Pandemic? Any changes affecting constitutional guarantees afforded federal criminal defendants in the U.S. would ultimately be up to Congress. 24 March 2020

X1\ (talk) 23:08, 25 March 2020 (UTC)