One of the requests to Congress would allow the department to petition a judge to indefinitely detain someone during an emergency.
The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies — part of a push for new powers that comes as the coronavirus spreads through the United States.
Documents reviewed by POLITICO detail the department’s 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.
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Update: In Sweeping Power Grab, DOJ Seeks Ability To Detain People Indefinitely Without Trial (Zero Hedge)
WNU Editor: The U.S. Justice Department is not denying this story. Never let a crisis go to waste is something that I sense is going to be exploited a lot by many governments around the world in the coming weeks and months.
Update #2: Lora Shiao to Be Acting Head of U.S. Counterterrorism Agency (Bloomberg).
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How convenient! Los Angeles County just made more space available in their jails.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-19/la-jails-coronavirus-sheriffs-department
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/los-angeles-sheriff-releasing-inmates-urging-fewer-arrests-help-combat-n1161206
a grab for power...Orange man has not declared an emergency etc and refuses to use the full force of the govt, for some reason (ask lobbyists), though many states are asking for this and our military has many trained medical people
Exclusive: U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak
Marisa Taylor
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.
Cuomo to Trump: invoke the Defense Production Act
New York governor Andrew Cuomo called on US President Donald Trump and the federal government to increase its response to the coronavirus pandemic spreading throughout the US.
At his daily press conference Sunday, Governor Cuomo implored the president to enact the Defense Production Act, which would mandate firms to make essential medical supplies such as masks.
“We are ready to go as soon as the federal government is ready to go,” he said. “If the federal government did it then they can do it in a very orderly way. They can distribute these goods by need rather than have these states competing with each other.”
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