Comment by smsm42

This reads as extremely bizarre. I mean, reading the fifth amendment makes it pretty clear - no one should be compelled to witness against oneself. However, it looks like the current executive and judicial are thinking "well, those Founders were just idiots for putting such an amendment in, clearly it'd be much easier to prosecute people if we could compel them to witness against themselves, so why don't we just ignore it and put people in jail indefinitely until they agree to witness against themselves?". Terrifying that it is so easy for them to completely ignore all constitutional protections.