This makes less sense than usual, CBJ7. Are you stating the due process only applies in civil matters, and does not apply to government employees?
The Obamatron has short-circuited your cognitive abilities.
Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
There are two types of constitutional Due Process at issue here – procedural Due Process, and Due Process liberty interests. Though it is not always an easy argument, under certain circumstances, some Courts recognize that both can be applied where Government employees’ jobs are taken unlawfully.
Procedural Due Process means that Government employees cannot be deprived of their employment without notice of the proposed action and a meaningful opportunity to respond.
See generally Cleveland Bd. of Educ. v. Loudermill, 470 U.S. 532, 542-45, 105 S.Ct. 1487, 84 L.Ed.2d 494 (1985). The Federal Government, for example, has developed procedures by which many employees are given notice of the charges and specifications against them, with thirty days to respond, orally and in writing, before an action can be finalized.
A Due Process liberty interest relates to a situation in which the Government’s action has not only deprived someone of a particular job, but of the ability to practice in a whole profession. For example, if someone were specially trained in a narrow field, and his/her whole career was in that field, and the Government’s removal action lacked Due Process and effectively prevented him/her of ever working again in that field, then he/she may have been deprived of a Liberty Interest.
See generally Wisconsin v. Constantineau, 400 U.S. 433, 437, 91 S.Ct. 507, 27 L.Ed.2d 515 (1971).
and that brings us to criminal charges..
oh wait, there aren't any.