Your protections are (and always have been) in what lies after that. That the government has to give you access to a judge at some point, who will make a determination whether they can hold you or not.

And that is my point. If the government starts denying you access to the courts, the courts lose all of their power. And you lose all of your rights as a citizen or even as a human in a country that has - until very recently - granted even non-citizens some basic human rights and access to our courts.

The current administration has already demonstrated its willingness to deny anyone and everyone access to the appropriate courts. They are collecting people with administrative warrants rather than judicial warrants and have summarily deported people without a court hearing. They are now acting as judge, jury, and executioner on the high seas, killing people who are posing no immediate threat to the military personnel who are using lethal force to stop suspected drug runners far from our coastline.

Citizen or not, we are all on the brink of losing our right to redress government wrongs in court.

—Peter