Whenever anyone is arrested you need to have probable cause, or you open yourself up to a lawsuit. You really want a "leftists" to have this unlimited detention power?
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They already have this power and procedure. They use it ALL THE TIME. The only difference this time is the people the power and procedure is being used against. If they don't like it, then the respected Congressxirs should have thought better of creating the laws that let the USSS do this.
Who is they?
The United States Secret Service. Seriously, I worked in the ER a while back and they brought a kid in for suicide watch. Turns out the kid was in the act of hanging a Rand Paul banner from the top of a building during a Bush rally. Because he was on a building they justified involuntary committment to the psych ward for so-called "suicide watch." Nothing wrong with the kid, but the law doesn't technically require that, only that they claim he might hurt himself or others. The USSS got an attending physician to sign off on it. The hospital held the kid for 24 hours and sent him home, when he promised not to hurt himself or others.
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