If any group has no right to due process, anyone can be assumed to be in that group and immediately lose their rights, and they get no due process to prove that they're not part of that group.

That's how they can deny anyone their rights. Even people who are not part of the targeted group.

@mcv Ah, where were you, when they did basically that to "terrorists" after 9/11?

Patriot Act allowing to lock up non-citizens without charging them?

Citizens labelled "enemy combatants" (who does the labelling, and what is an EC?) can be held indefinitely without legal representation, without a charge, under "wartime powers", WHAT f%&king war? (e.g. Yaser Esam Hamdi and José Padilla)

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#Trump is just continuing the good work of the bipartisan US system here, sorry to have to say that.

@mcv Please note, that one of the most clever and at the same time evil things the US political caste did was introducing "war on X" with X not a country.

Traditionally war is a legal state that is declared by Congress, and generally it involves countries. It's generally a severe condition. So it allows abridging civil rights.

Obviously the war on smoking or the war on obesity or the war on drugs should not empower the government to ignore civil rights. But the clever wording, ... 1/