'You haven't read the Constitution?' Dem pummels Kash Patel for ignoring due process law

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'You haven't read the Constitution?' Dem pummels Kash Patel for ignoring due process law

David Edwards
May 8, 2025 12:41PM ET

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) pressed FBI Director Kash Patel about why he refused to investigate agencies violating the U.S. Constitution by denying due process to migrants.

During a Thursday Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Merkley asked Patel if he was familiar with the Fifth Amendment.

"And you're familiar that that applies to all persons in the United States?" the senator said. "So there's been a lot of concern about the several hundred immigrants who were swept off the streets of America and sent to El Salvador without due process."

Patel, however, said he wasn't "in a position" to judge the treatment of migrants.

"Senator, I don't know that I agree with your characterization," Patel replied.

"Well, that was my first question, whether or not you agree with the Fifth Amendment and are prepared to defend it," the Democratic lawmaker noted.

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. The Constitution simply isn't taught in school.

It should be, but it's not.

[D_Master81]

4. Yeah

But I remember that Thomas Jefferson made the Louisiana purchase.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Seems the Constitution is something an FBI director should have read.

After all, they swear to support and defend the Constitution.

Truth is: I don't want the little NAZI Ka$h Patel or the next J Edgar Hoover-wannabe to think it doesn't apply to them.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Patel never really practiced law and clearly slept through Con law

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