A new bill of rights is in order.

1. No person shall be kept in government custody for more than 72 hours without charges presented before a judge, and where such charges are dropped within 72 hours the judge shall inquire as to whether or not a “Catch and Release” program is operating to attempt to deny Constitutionally guaranteed rights. (Right to a hearing)

2. No person shall be kept in government custody without the ability to contact an attorney, friends and family. (Right to communications).

3. No person shall be subjected before trial to greater punishment than could occur after trial, and in no case shall any person be held by the government or any agent thereof after any such excessive punishment has occurred. (Right to freedom from torture).

4. No person shall be transferred, assigned, renditioned, or otherwise made available to any third party when the government has knowledge or could reasonably be assumed to have knowledge that any of these right have any possibility of being violated by that third party. (Right to freedom from rendition).

5. No law shall be reinterpreted, restated, reformed, or rehabilitated by any act of the Executive, by memoranda, signing statement, or any other act, including treaties of the United States, whose sole option to challenge any phrase of any law or treaty shall be by an action in the courts of the United States disputing the validity of the phrase or act under the Constitution. No rule or other Executive Branch instrument which has the force of law may be promulgated or established in secret, and if any such rule or instrument is promulgated it shall be null and void under the Constitution of the United States. (No secret acts with force of law).

6. No law shall be made by the Congress in secret, and any such law shall be null and void under the Constitution of the United States. (No secret laws).

7. No search or seizure shall be made by the government of the United States or any agent thereof without a valid warrant signed by a court. No use shall be made of any information or objects seized without a valid warrant by the government or any other legal entity. No such warrant may be signed in secret without a fact specific determination made by the judge signing the warrant that such sealing or the record is in the interests of all the people of the United States, and not just the interests of the government officers before him, and shall state the smallest amount of time the information shall be held secret. (No secret warrants)

8. No person shall be kept in government custody for more than 30 days without a trial giving the full and complete panoply of Constitutional rights to the accused. No agent of the government shall withhold any evidence material to the defense of the accused for even a day without loss of all immunity regarding such acts. Willful violation of such a duty shall result in the agent of the government standing trial for the same term of years or penalty as the accused, the sole proof required being the withholding of the evidence. (Right to speedy trial).

9. No matter or information shall remain secret where such matter or information would or could be used to demonstrate a violation of the Constitution or the criminal law by agents of the government, where the government has knowledge or could reasonably be assumed to have knowledge of such violation or criminal act. Intentional failure to disclose such information shall be treason against the United States. (Right to the rule of law).

Many thanks for all you do.