Opposing US ruling-class assaults on freedoms protected by the Constitution
Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024![Left, President Joseph Biden, speaking May 31 at the White House, called Donald Trump supporters “semi-fascists” and “MAGA Republicans” to justify targeting his constitutional rights. Trump was found guilty May 30 in politically concocted trial violating his Sixth Amendment right “to know the nature of the charges” and to an impartial jury. Yet Biden urged no one to criticize “our justice system.” Right, Florida, August 2022. Armed raid by Justice Department on Trump home in Mar-a-Lago, trampling protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. Under bourgeois regimes, “all suppression of political rights and freedom, no matter whom they’re directed against at the start, in the end inevitably bear down upon the working class,” communist leader Leon Trotsky said in 1939.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Biden-FBI-canvas-8824-300x106.jpg)
“Opposing US rulers’ assaults on freedoms protected by the Constitution and their use of the political police” is the title of the opening section of the political resolution adopted by the December 2022 Socialist Workers Party national convention. It is…