---
title: "While everyone is distracted by pandemania, our congress critters are…"
date: 2020-03-21
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships shared a link.
---

# While everyone is distracted by pandemania, our congress critters are…

*March 21, 2020 · Facebook*

::::: {}
::: {}
[https://reason.com/2020/03/21/justice-department-reportedly-asks-congress-for-indefinite-detention-powers-to-fight-coronavirus/](https://reason.com/2020/03/21/justice-department-reportedly-asks-congress-for-indefinite-detention-powers-to-fight-coronavirus/){target="_blank"}
:::

::: {}
While everyone is distracted by pandemania, our congress critters are still hard at work trying to seize power.\
\
\"If someone as incompetent as Trump won\'t cure people of their desire for an authoritarian savior, nothing will!\
\
\"The department is asking Congress to allow the U.S. attorney general to ask courts to suspend court proceedings. These include \"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,\" reports Betsy Woodruff Swan, citing DOJ documents presented to Congress.\
\
In other words, the Justice Department would be able to postpone trials, hearings, and other procedural steps that follow arrest. That represents a potentially huge violation of the constitutional right to a speedy trial.\"\"
:::
:::::