The Presidential Daily Brief

We Are Fighting for American Due Process

The U.S. Congress has passed a National Defense Authorization Act, the bill that sets national defense priorities for the nation, every year since 1961. But this year Senate Republicans are locked in a fight over how much, if any, due-process protections American citizens arrested on American soil are owed. Even worse, some senators are trying to prevent even a vote on the issue. Things got heated at the Senate Republican lunch Wednesday.