State secrets privilege, now invoked for deportees, has long let the U.S. escape accountability in court

After nine days and four court appearances, the Trump administration realized recently it could raise the state secrets privilege as a defense in the case of the people it’s deported without due process to Venezuela. It did so.

Trump's ICE & Homeland Security New Trick With Immigrant Rights, Extradition, Imprisonment & Abuse In Court

Martin G. Evans is a writer in Cambridge whose contributions on managerial and political issues have appeared in The Boston Globe, Cambridge Chronicle, MetroWest Daily News, Providence Journal, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail of Toronto, National Post of Toronto and the former Toronto Financial Post. He has taught at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, London Business School, George Mason University, Rutgers University and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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