Senator van Hollen revealed that the El Salvador administration is being paid 15 million dollars to detain the extrajudicially rendered prisoners from the U.S.
This is almost certainly illegal. Appropriating is enshrined as a congressional power in the Constitution.
Please demand that the appropriations committees in both chambers hold hearings and do oversight on the contract between the US and El Salvador.
I am appalled that Congress continues to allow the executive branch to arrogate Congressional powers to the executive. This needs to stop now.
There are so many other recent events that show that the rule of law, constitutional order, the rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the authority of the judicial branch -- and so many other fundamental principles and agencies of our democracy are under threat-- that I cannot begin to list them here.
I am appalled and alarmed.
Since you have not issued any public statements to abjure your oath to the Constitution, can I count on you to honor that? To support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same?
Please reply in writing to let me know how you will conduct oversight on payments to El Salvador.
Please also let me know when and why your colleagues renounced their solemn oaths to the constitution.
We elected you to serve us and to uphold and defend the Constitution.
First sent on April 20 by Mary
