Kim Wehle
Role at the time: Law professor, author and legal analyst
Condemned
Statement summary
Wehle condemned the family’s detention and questioned whether it violated constitutional due-process guarantees.
“I recently read a disturbing essay that jolted me back into the dark reality that the United States of America is holding tens of thousands of people—including children—in prisons in apparent violation of basic constitutional guarantees like due process.”
Read the original text (opens in a new tab)Kim Wehle, “Can the Government Really Just Lock People Up Without Due Process?”Opening paragraphs and sections addressing the Hashemi–Tahmasebi family
Wehle’s authored legal commentary. It establishes her criticism and legal analysis; factual details about the family remain attributed where the article relies on Tahmasebi’s account.
Why we used this label
Wehle called Tahmasebi’s account disturbing, described the detention system as an apparent due-process violation and argued that the family had committed no crimes.