We call it "Due Process" in the Legal World.

Bob Herbert today:

What we have here is power run amok. Ms. Sherrod was not even called into an office to be fired face to face. She got the shocking news in her car. “They called me twice,” she told The Associated Press. “The last time, they asked me to pull over to the side of the road and submit my resignation on my BlackBerry, and that’s what I did.”

This woman was thrown to the wolves without even the courtesy of a conversation. Her side of the story? The truth? The administration wasn’t interested.

And the blame for that falls squarely on the people at the very top in the White House. Why didn’t President Obama or Vice President Joe Biden or Rahm (call me Rahmbo) Emanuel, or somebody somewhere in the upper echelon say, “Hey, what the heck are you doing? You can’t fire a person without hearing her side of the story. This is not the Kremlin. Are you nuts?”

In my personal experience, as much as they might pay lip service to properly enforcing rights and making certain true justice is served, liberals can be amongst the worst at failing to investigate all sides of the story if they are convinced their side is by self definition ... "correct".

Black, white and read-all-over, it's good these things are coming to light before the federal government big bureaucracy usurps even more power over our day-to-day American lives. Nothing worse than facing consequences before you've even had a shot at explaining or defending your own version of the facts...

So pleads the powerless. And as Niemöller reminds us, one just never knows when that group might include you too.