The provision was inserted into the law by members of Congress who said they feared that the Patriot Act might lead to widespread law enforcement abuses.
Since Trump's definition of the domestic threat has centered on what he has called "radical Islamic terror", US Muslim communities, already the target of widespread law-enforcement suspicion since 9/11, would probably find themselves subject to a separate system of wartime justice in which they would enjoy fewer rights.
Today, some of his future subordinates are worried he'll gut the part of the Justice Department devoted to prosecuting abusive cops and investigating allegations of widespread law enforcement misconduct.
The coalition website calls for action in light of a "national crisis of widespread police violence, law enforcement impunity and systemic lack of accountability for police misconduct".
Lack of effective rule of law, and widespread police and judicial corruption in Brazil, Honduras, and Mexico, make it easy for those determined to turn a profit at any cost to order and carry out killings — and to get away with it.
But government remains largely unreformed, tax evasion is widespread, labour laws are rigid and some privatisations have created private monopolies.
The styles are widespread, the laws governing the quality of German beers are second to none and the production is prolific - at Munich's Oktoberfest alone, more than 5m litres of foaming joy are guzzled, with more than 4,000 different brands covering 40 varieties.
"It is an open secret long shared by prosecutors, defense lawyers, and judges that perjury is widespread among law enforcement officers … police lie to avoid letting someone they think is guilty, or they know is guilty, go free".
In 2008, a New York State investigation of the industry found widespread labor law violations.
In the US, where the use of lie detectors, or polygraphs, is widespread among law enforcement agencies, that debate has already raged for many years.
