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Eric Swalwell demands ‘due process’ rights that Dems denied others

Disgraced former congressman Eric Swalwell complained as he resigned that he had been denied “due process.”

Not really. He simply lost all of his political support amid horrific allegations of sexual assault.

But at long last, Swalwell has at least finally acknowledged that due process rights exist. These are the rights that he and other Democrats have denied to their political enemies for more than a decade.

The left’s attack on due process began, ironcally, with the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement. When a grand jury in Missouri declined to indict former police officer Darren Wilson for shooting Michael Brown in 2014, Al Sharpton, the New York Times, and others attacked the grand jury system itself.

It did not matter that Brown had attacked Wilson, even reaching inside Wilson’s police car and trying to take his gun, then charging toward him on the street.

According to the left, even the flimsy protections that grand juries offer to defendants were too generous for police to enjoy.

Then came Donald Trump, and Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Democrats made up a hoax about Russian “collusion,” and forced the appointment of a special counsel. The late Robert Mueller took the job, even though he knew there was........

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