Legal Experts Say Trump Can Definitely Reopen Alcatraz, But Could Face 'avalanche Of Lawsuits'

Fox News ineligible expert Gregg Jarrett and erstwhile General Counsel of nan Navy Van Hipp joined "Fox & Friends" connected Monday to talk President Donald Trump's telephone to reopen nan Alcatraz situation successful San Francisco, California. 

"It's a provocative idea, which whitethorn beryllium why Trump is proposing it. So, nan sound you hear, are each nan wide heads exploding astatine nan aforesaid time. Progressives frown connected prisons. They thin to favour nanny daycare for hardened criminals," Jarrett told big Brian Kilmeade. 

Trump called for nan reopening of nan notorious situation successful a Truth Social post. 

"It is, however, national property, truthful this tin beryllium done, but it'd person to beryllium rebuilt almost entirely. It's truthful outdated and crumbling. And here's nan important part, it has landmark status. So, location would beryllium an avalanche of lawsuits that would astir apt necktie it up for years. Don't forget, this is California," Jarrett continued.

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President Trump directs management to rebuild Alcatraz bigger and reopen to location astir convulsive criminals. (Credit: iStock | Getty Images)

Hipp, a erstwhile U.S. Army lawman adjunct secretary, said Trump could "absolutely" reopen Alcatraz. 

"For those folks who are complaining it's going to costs excessively much, it's going to beryllium excessively difficult to do from a building standpoint. We've had a builder successful this country, nan champion builder successful America for years and years successful nan commercialized assemblage is simply a feline by nan sanction of Donald Trump. I deliberation he tin give, if they effort to slow rotation this, and bureaucrats effort to do what they for illustration to do, I deliberation nan president tin springiness them each nan proposal they request connected really to reopen Alcatraz nan correct way," he told "Fox and Friends" connected Monday.

Alcatraz opened successful 1934, but nan prison, located connected a 22-acre spit of rock, was shuttered aft 29 years.

"REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!" nan president said connected societal media. "For excessively long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repetition Criminal Offenders, nan waste of society, who will ne'er lend thing different than Misery and Suffering."

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Donald Trump waves to supporters successful West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Trump said he is directing nan Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Homeland Security to reopen a "substantially enlarged and rebuilt" Alcatraz, "to location America’s astir ruthless and convulsive offenders."

Hipp told "Fox and Friends" nan move was what Americans voted for.

"This is what nan American group voted for astatine large. They're tired of thugs and gangs roaming rampant connected our metropolis streets. They're tired of murderers and terrorists coming crossed our border. And sometimes we hide why we person a national government. The states came together to supply for nan communal defense of nan American people. That's why we had nan national government, and I deliberation President Trump realizes that it's his astir important responsibility," Hipp said. 

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Fox News' Greg Wehner contributed to this report.