What Alito got right in his El Salvador case dissent
Mary McCord is executive director of Georgetown Law School's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and a former acting assistant attorney general for national security and longtime federal prosecutor.
Critically, on the fundamental point, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. did not dissent.
When Americans are so profoundly divided about so much, it appears there's still one thing we agree on: Before the government deprives someone of 'life, liberty, or property,' it must provide what the Fifth Amendment requires: due process of law.
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