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In the light of this mission and his instructions, they were more than casually useful; they were aids in steps essential to his design for treason. And more important, it held that the constitutional requirement of two witnesses to the same overt act or confession in open court does not operate to exclude confessions or admissions made out of court, where a legal basis for the conviction has been laid by the testimony of two witnesses of which such confessions or admissions are merely corroborative.
This relaxation of restrictions surrounding the definition of treason evoked obvious satisfaction from Justice Douglas, who saw in Haupt a vindication of his position in Cramer. Intent need not be proved by two witnesses but may be inferred from all the circumstances surrounding the overt act. But if two witnesses are not required to prove treasonable intent, two witnesses need not be required to show the treasonable character of the overt act.
For proof of treasonable intent in the doing of the overt act necessarily involves proof that the accused committed the overt act with the knowledge or understanding of its treasonable character. That requirement is undeniably met in the present case, as it was in the case of Cramer. The present decision is truer to the constitutional definition of treason when it forsakes that test and holds that an act, quite innocent on its face, does not need two witnesses to be transformed into a incriminating one.
United States was decided on June 2, While a minor, he took the oath of allegiance to the United States; went to Japan for a visit on an American passport; and was prevented by the outbreak of war from returning to this country. During the war, he reached his majority in Japan; changed his registration from American to Japanese, showed sympathy with Japan and hostility to the United States; served as a civilian employee of a private corporation producing war materials for Japan; and brutally abused American prisoners of war who were forced to work there.
An American citizen, it continued, owes allegiance to the United States wherever he may reside, and dual nationality does not alter the situation. Justice Jackson states erroneously that the requirement of two witnesses to the same overt act was an original invention of the Convention of Actually it comes from the British Treason Trials Act of While the Fifth Amendment would not require the same process that is due in a criminal case, it would likely require at least reasonable notice of the allegations and an opportunity for the detainee to be heard.
At least one American with no ethnic ties to or association with an enemy country was subjected to an exclusion order issued pursuant to Executive Order Homer Wilcox, a native of Ohio, was excluded from his home in San Diego and removed by military force to Nevada, although the exclusion board had determined that he had no association with any enemy and was more aptly described as a "harmless crackpot. Emmons, 67 F.
Supp S. Wilcox, F. I" Id at The court also found that the Act of Congress penalizing violations of military orders under Executive Order did not preclude General De Witt from using military personnel to forcibly eject Wilcox from his home. However, it was emphasized in these cases that Congress had specifically ratified Executive Order by enacting 18 U.
Thus, even though the restrictions and internments occurred in the midst of a declared war, a presidential order coupled with specific legislation appear to have been required to validate the measures. The internment of Japanese-American Id at Korematsu v. De Witt v.
Drum, 51 F. Maderia, 57 F. Barr, F. Another person charged with treason for his part in the saboteurs' conspiracy, Helmut Leiner, was acquitted of treason but then interned as an enemy alien. He was indicted for violating TWEA and receiving a salary from the German government without reporting his activity as a foreign agent.
Order No. Like Exec. However, during oral argument before the Supreme Court, the Attorney General placed some emphasis on the fact that the Proclamation was consistent with the Alien Enemy Act as well as the Articles of War, and was thus authorized by Congress. Eight saboteurs were tried by military commission in See Ex parte Quirin, U. Two other saboteurs landed by submarine in and were convicted by military commission.
See Colepaugh v. Haupt, F. He was later found guilty of violating the TWEA and censorship laws. These cases involving collaborators with the Quirin eight, as well as other unrelated cases of sabotage or collaboration with the enemy during World War II, did not result in any military determinations that those accused were enemy combatants.
It is thus not clear what kind of association with Germany or with other enemy saboteurs, short of actual membership in the German armed forces, would have enabled the military to detain them as enemy combatants under the law of war. Recognizing that the Communist Party presented a different kind of threat from that of a strictly military attack, members of Congress sought to address the internal threat with innovative legislation.
The bill also contained a See also discussion regarding proposed War Security Act, supra note 44, and accompanying text. See 96 Cong. McCarran introducing S. Clark to Sen. Senator Kilgore introduced the Emergency Detention Act" Kilgore bill to authorize the President to declare a national emergency under certain conditions, during which the Attorney General could enact regulations for the preventive incarceration of persons suspected of subversive ties.
At the time of the debate, 18 U. Proponents of the Kilgore bill argued that the proposed legislation would create a program for internment of enemies that would contain sufficient procedural safeguards to render it invulnerable to court invalidation based on Ex parte Endo. President Truman vetoed the bill, voicing his continued opposition to the McCarran Act. The President did not take a firm position with regard to the Emergency Detention Act, stating that it may be that legislation of this type should be on the statute books.
But the provisions in [the ISA] would very probably prove ineffective to achieve the objective sought, since they would not suspend the writ of habeas corpus, and under our legal system to detain a man not charged with a crime would raise serious constitutional questions unless the writ of habeas corpus were suspended. Douglas, a co-sponsor of the Kilgore bill, discussing legal precedent for proposed internment and identifying procedural safeguards incorporated in the proposed bill.
Section of the Emergency Detention Act explicitly preserved the right to habeas corpus. The President recommended further study on the matter of preventive detention for national security purposes. Congress passed the ISA over the President's veto. The McCarran Act provides for various detention centers to be operated throughout the country and these might be utilized for the temporary imprisonment of warring guerrillas. The much earlier legislative history accompanying the passage of the Alien Enemy Act may also be interpreted to suggest that the internment of See H.
According to the Justice Department, the rumors that a system of concentration camps existed was likely instigated by a pamphlet distributed by a group named Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties, which had been found to be a Communist-front organization that aimed to nullify the ISA.
Id at 9. According to the legislative history, Congress repealed the penalty for violating military orders with respect to military areas proclaimed pursuant to any executive order because the measure had been intended only for wartime, and noted the repeal was consistent with the earlier repeal of the Emergency Detention Act. See H. If the law of war traditionally supports the detention of such persons as enemy combatants or unlawful combatants, it may be questioned why such an approach has not been utilized during past conflicts, during which the internal security risk of hostile action by "fifth columnists," spies, and saboteurs was frequently perceived to equal the danger of military clashes on the battlefield.
It has been reported that one Canadian citizen is being held in U. A Qatari national who was lawfully present in the United States has also been declared an "enemy combatant" and 1 urned over to military custody. The man, Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, was originally detained as a material witness on December 12, , in connection with the investigation into the attacks of September 11, He was later charged with credit card fraud and scheduled to stand trial beginning July 21, However, on June 23, , President Bush designated him an "enemy combatant" and directed that he be transferred to the Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina, where he is currently being held.
His attorneys filed a petition for habeas corpus on See Alien Enemy Brief, supra note 79, at In this country, [the power to intern enemies] is not lodged wholly in the Executive; it is in Congress. Perhaps, if war was declared, the President might then, as Commander in Chief, exercise a military power over these people; but it would be best to settle these regulations by civil process. Quoting remarks of Mr. Sewall from 2 Annals of Congress , 5 th Congress Others may have believed the President had the authority to intern all enemies once war was declared: [The discretionary power to take enemy aliens into custody] could not be looked as a dangerous or exorbitant power, since the President would have the power, the moment war was declared, to apprehend the whole of these people as enemies, and make them prisoners of war.
This bill ought rather to be considered as an amelioration or modification of those powers which the President already possesses as Commander in Chief, and which the martial law would prove more rigorous than those proposed by this new regulation. Hamdi' s case may be likened to Territo in that he was captured on a field of battle and was not charged with committing any offense.
In Territo, the court cited the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War as the legal authority for the detention of the petitioner as a prisoner of war, and the petitioner did not dispute that he had served as a member of the Italian armed forces, with which the United States was then at war.
The sole question before the court was whether a U. Territo did not contest his capture as a war prisoner or claim that his rights under the Geneva Convention had been violated. Hamdi, however, reportedly claims that he is not a member of Al Qaeda or the Taliban and was present in Afghanistan only to provide humanitarian assistance. Amendment,' and expressed the intent to inquire into the authority of the person making the determination of Hamdi's status, whether the screening criteria used to determine such status meet due process requirements, the national security aims served by his continued detention, and whether the relevant military regulations and international law require a different procedure.
The court vacated the production order issued by the district court and ordered the petition to be dismissed. In sum, the Fourth Circuit has validated the Executive authority to detain persons captured by the military on the battlefield during hostilities authorized by Congress, regardless of their U. Under Hamdi II, the federal courts are not empowered to hear the prisoner on the question of whether his designation as an "enemy combatant" by the military was factually supported or whether the determination was made in such a manner as to comply with the Constitution, DoD regulations regarding the capture and detention of persons in war, or international law.
However, the court stressed that Hamdi's capture and detention by American allied forces "in a foreign theater of operations during active hostilities" and determination by the United States military that he was allied with enemy forces set his case apart from that of Jose Padilla, discussed infra. The Case of Jose Padilla. The government argues that the case of Jose Padilla, who was arrested in Chicago and alleged to be involved in a plot to detonate a "dirty bomb," is very similar to the facts behind Ex parte Quirin.
A federal judge agreed, noting that the facts alleged by the government would, if true, validate the government's authority to detain him under military custody. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit agreed with the petitioner, reversing the district court's finding. The government argues that Milligan is inapposite to the petition of Padilla on the grounds that Padilla, like petitioners in Quirin, is "a belligerent associated with the enemy who sought to enter the United States during wartime in an effort to aid the enemy's commission of hostile acts, and who therefore is subject to the laws of war.
The government does not allege that Padilla entered the country illegally or landed as part of a military offensive. In Quirin, the petitioners were members of the German armed forces and admitted to having entered the country surreptitiously by way of German naval submarine. The government's argument appears to presume that there is no relevant difference between the landing of the German saboteurs and Padilla's entry into the United States by means of a commercial flight, neither under disguise nor using false identification.
Bush, 02 Civ. See Gonzales, supra note? Th[e legal] standard [for determining enemy combatant status] was articulated by the Supreme Court in Quirin, where the Court made clear that, at a minimum,. The important factor, therefore, is that the person has become a member or associated himself with hostile enemy forces, thereby attaining the status of enemy combatant.
However, it may be argued that under Quirin, the surreptitious nature of the petitioners' arrival onto the territory of the United States through coastal defenses, by means of enemy vessels that would have been lawful targets had the Navy or Coast Guard identified them as such, was a major determinant of the petitioners' status as enemy combatants.
Padilla's arrival by apparently lawful means arguably has no bearing on whether he is subject to military jurisdiction. The government disputes Padilla's claim that the laws of war do not apply to Al Qaeda and thus could never apply to him. The government finds support for the opposite claim in The Prize Cases. The government argues that Milligan is inapposite; "whereas Milligan was not engaged in legal acts of hostility against the government, Thus, whether Milligan applies may depend on the emphasis placed on the legality of the acts of hostility of which Milligan was accused, rather than whether Milligan was engaged in acts of hostility at all.
The Milligan opinion seems to view the nature of the legality of the acts to be based on Milligan's legitimacy as a belligerent rather than the nature of the acts. It may be argued that Padilla, like Milligan, was not engaged in legal acts of hostility, because he is not a lawful belligerent. Milligan' s Entering the country through coastal defenses was an explicit prohibition in Proc. There is currently no published proclamation to the effect that persons who travel from overseas may be treated as unlawful enemy combatants.
While President Bush issued a military order providing for the detention of persons who are associated with Al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations, it does not apply to citizens. However, it might be recalled that the government had argued that Milligan was allegedly associated with the Confederate Army, a recognized belligerent, and that he was in effect accused of acting as an unlawful belligerent. The petitioners in Quirin were all actual members of the armed forces of an enemy in a declared war.
What association with the enemy short of membership in its armed forces might have brought the saboteurs under military jurisdiction is unclear. The continuing validity of Milligan has been questioned by some scholars, even though the Quirin Court declined to overrule it, while others assert that the essential meaning of the case has only to do with situations of martial law or, perhaps, civil wars. Furthermore, it has been noted that the portion of the plurality in Milligan asserting that Congress could not constitutionally authorize the President to use the military to detain and try civilians may be considered dicta with correspondingly less precedential value, inasmuch as Congress had implicitly denied such authority.
At any rate, modem courts have seemed less inclined to challenge the Executive's authority in war or its interpretation of the law of war. Constitutional Authority to Detain "Enemy Combatants" The law of war permits belligerents to seize the bodies and property of enemy aliens.
In that Korean War-era case, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a presidential order seizing control of steel mills that had ceased production due to a labor dispute, an action justified by President Truman on the basis of wartime exigencies, despite the absence of legislative authority. Justice Jackson set forth the following oft-cited formula to determine whether Presidential authority is constitutional: 1.
When the President acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress, his authority is at its maximum, for it includes all that he possesses in his own right plus all that Congress can delegate. A seizure executed by the President pursuant to an Act of Congress would be supported by the strongest of presumptions and the widest latitude of judicial interpretation, and the burden of persuasion would rest heavily upon any who might attack it.
When the President acts in absence of either a congressional grant or denial of authority, he can only rely upon his own independent powers, but there is a zone of twilight in which he and Congress may have concurrent authority, or in which its distribution is uncertain.
Therefore, congressional inertia, indifference or quiescence may sometimes, at least as a practical matter, enable, if not invite, measures on independent presidential responsibility. In this area, any actual test See Brown v. United States, 12 U. The government invites the courts to construe 18 U. Chadha, U. Klein, 80 U.
Sawyer, U. When the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb, for then he can rely only upon his own constitutional powers minus any constitutional powers of Congres s over the matter. Courts can sustain exclusive Presidential control in such a case only by disabling the Congress from acting upon the subject.
Presidential claim to a power at once so conclusive and preclusive must be scrutinized with caution, for what is at stake is the equilibrium established by our constitutional system. Padilla and Hamdi, and their supporters generally argue that such constitutional authority, if it exists, is dependant upon specific authorization by Congress, which they argue is missing or even explicitly denied in the present circumstances, placing the controversy into the second or third category above.
The government, on the other hand, sees the issue as one that falls squarely into the first category, asserting that Congressional authority for the detentions clearly exists, although such authority is not strictly necessary. Congressional authority, the government argues, may be found in the Authorization to Use Force' and a provision of title 10, U.
Accordingly, the following sections examine the constitutional authority to take prisoners in war and, if congressional authority is required, whether Congress has provided it. The Authorization to Use Force. The government argues, and two federal courts have agreed, that the identification and detention of enemy combatants is encompassed within Congress' express authorization to the President "to use force against those 'nations, organizations, or persons he determines' were responsible for the September 11, terrorist attacks.
The Padillacourt, however, distinguished the facts of that case as not involving the detention of an enemy combatant on the battlefield. Padilla, F. See Hamdi IV, F. The Second Circuit noted that While it may be possible to infer a power of detention from the Joint Resolution irk the battlefield context where detentions are necessary to carry out the war, there is no reason to suspect from the language of the Joint Resolution that Congress believed it would be authorizing the detention of an American citizen already held in a federal correctional institution and not "arrayed against our troops" in the field of battle.
The government asserts that the lack of a formal declaration of war is not relevant to the existence of a war and unnecessary to invoke the law of war. While a declaration is unnecessary for the existence of an armed conflict according to the international law of war, it may be argued that a formal declaration is necessary to determine what law applies domestically, whether to aliens or citizens. At least one statutory provision in the Uniform Code of Military Justice UCMJ that might authorize the military to detain certain civilians "in time of war" has been interpreted to mean only a war declared by Congress.
McDonald, F. Averette, 41 C. The government notes that its military practice has long been to detain enemy combatants in conflicts where war was not formally declared and Congress did not expressly authorize the capture of enemies. However, we are not aware of any modern court ruling as to whether and under what circumstances citizens may be held as "enemy combatants," where no formal declaration of war has been enacted.
It may be argued that any authorization to employ ground troops against an enemy army necessarily encompasses the authority to capture battlefield enemies, because it is an essential aspect of fighting a battle. International law does not permit the intentional killing of civilians or soldiers who are hors de combat, preferring capture as the method of neutralizing enemies on the battlefield.
For example, the Supreme Court held that the President has no implied authority to promulgate regulations permitting the capture of enemy property during hostilities short of a declared war, even where Congress had authorized a "limited" war. See also United States v. Monday, 36 C. However, it might also be argued that the United States is a battlefield in the war against terrorism in more than just a metaphorical sense.
The AUF appears to authorize the use of force anywhere in the world, including the territory of the United States, against any persons determined by the President to have "planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks" or "harbored such organizations or persons. The U. Under this view, for example, it might be questioned whether those sources of law provide adequate basis for a war against alleged members of a criminal organization and those who harbor them.
The government argues that even if Congress did not explicitly authorize the detention of enemy combatants in its resolution authorizing force, "Congress has otherwise made clear its acceptance and assumption that the President's Commander-in-Chief powers in a time of war encompasses the detention of enemy belligerents. The court viewed it as According to one DoD official: [T]he President has defined our current campaign against Al-Qaeda and similar terrorists of global reach as a "war.
As such, the law of armed conflict with regards to targeting and "hors de combat" applies in this conflict as it would in any other. Bush 02 Civ. The Hamdi court agreed with this position, however, the Padilla court rejected it based on its interpretation of Ex parte Endo requiring that language authorizing funds must "clearly" and "unmistakably" authorize the detention of American citizens.
The language was first codified into title 10, U. It first appeared in the Third Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act of ,' when the Army requested an addition to the defense appropriations bill to provide the authority for the Secretary of War to utilize any appropriation available for the Military Establishment under such regulation as the Secretary of War may prescribe for all expenses incident to the maintenance, pay and allowances of prisoners of war, other persons in Army custody whose status is determined by the Secretary of War to be similar to prisoners of war, and persons detained in Army custody, pursuant to Presidential proclamation.
President, will the Senator from Tennessee permit me to invite his attention to page 9 of the bill before he starts on a new title? Enemies who are found in this country are taken up by the Army, and they have to be provided for. It was testified that at times it was very necessary to arrest civilians and to provide for their care. I have not the slightest doubt that it is necessary, Is there existing law under which they are at present being taken up by the Army? The Army did not want to take a chance about it.
Is there an existing law under which such persons are today being taken up by the Army and being held as prisoners? The advice to the Committee was that there is not, and in order to make it absolutely sure the committee thought there should be such a provision, and this provision was inserted. I am quite sure the Senator will, under the circumstances, agree that it should be included in the bill.
I have not the slightest question that it is absolutely necessary that certain classes of persons be taken up, not allowed to roam at large to our detriment. There is no question as to that. All I wish to know is where authority to do that is found in the law. Is their status defined? Under what circumstances may they be taken up? If there be no such authority anywhere, then I think we should very promptly and properly direct our attention to such a field.
We certainly are not going to authorize it merely by providing in an appropriation bill for an allotment of money to be paid after they are taken up. The Senator misunderstands me. The appropriation is not to pay for their being taken up, but it is to maintain them and to keep them safely after they are taken up by whatever authority, that this appropriation is recommended.
The Senator feels he is quite correct in saying that up to now there is no authorization provided by statute for their being taken up by the Army? I thank the Senator. In view of the fact that that important section does implement both the statute and the proclamations issued pursuant thereto, I feel that it is important that the Record should show what the situation is.
Similar language has appeared in subsequent defense appropriations until , when it was added to title 10 as a note to section 87 CONG. The proclamations to which he was referring are those listed supra at note It is unlikely that 10 U. As an appropriations measure, it probably could not be interpreted to authorize by implication what Congress has not provided for elsewhere, nor is it likely that the language would be interpreted to repeal by implication express language contradicting the interpretation.
Legislation regarding prisoners of war and enemy aliens subsequent to the Defense Authorization Act arguably supports the understanding that, at least on the territory of the United States, Congress did not contemplate that any persons would be interned in any status other than that of prisoner of war or enemy alien.
In , at the request of the Attorney General Biddle, Congress enacted a provision making it a criminal offense to procure or aid in the escape of persons interned as prisoners of war or alien enemies. The petitioners in both Hamdi and Padilla assert that Congress expressly has forbidden the detention of U.
They cite 18 U. This language originated with the repeal of the Emergency Detention Act in The legislative history demonstrates that Congress intended to prevent recurrence of internments in detention camps such as those that had occurred during the Second Pub. World War with respect to Japanese-Americans. See li. Smith, U.
Mikva : If there is any inherent power of the President of the United States, either as the Chief Executive or as Commander in Chief, under the Constitution of the United States, to authorize the detention of any citizen of the United States, nothing in the House bill that is currently before this Committee interferes with that power, because obviously no act of Congress can derogate the constitutional power of a President.
The bill would permit detainees to have access to attorneys to challenge the basis for their detention, and would not suspend the writ of habeas corpus. The bill would not apply to combatants captured on a battlefield overseas or suspected criminals arrested abroad who are not U.
Section-by-section Analysis. Section 2. The bill would take note of the difficulties inherent in determining who is an enemy combatant in the context of the present war, but reaffirm the need to detain enemy combatants as appropriate "to protect the safety of the public and those involved in the investigation and prosecution of terrorism, to facilitate the use of classified evidence without compromising intelligence or military efforts, to gather unimpeded vital information from the detainee, and otherwise to protect national security interests.
Further, the bill would find that the Executive must be allowed broad latitude to establish regulations for determining which U. It would verify that section a of title 18, U. Code "proscribes detention of any kind The bill would find that Congress has authorized the President to detain U. The bill would find that constitutional protection does not cease during wartime, para. Hamdi III, F. It would reaffirm the right to habeas corpus, para.
Section 3. Detention of Enemy Combatants. Section 3 authorizes the detention of enemy combatants, which it defines as U. The authority to establish the standards, process, and criteria to be used for the "enemy combatant" designation would be delegated to the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General. It would not require different procedures depending on the circumstances of capture or arrest of the designee, but, assuming the Act would apply extraterritorially, presumably the military would continue using rules of engagement developed for a particular military operation to identify enemy combatants during battle, at least until it could be determined whether a captured person is a U.
Section 4. Procedural Requirements. The procedural rules established under section 3 would be required to establish clear standards and procedures that would preserve the Government' s ability to detain U. The rules would also be required to contain procedures for the protection of classified information or information that, if released, could impede the investigation of terrorism.
Lastly, the rules would also have to provide detainees with timely access to judicial review in the U. District Court for the District of Columbia, according to sec. Section 5. Section 5 would limit the duration of detention under the Act to a period in which the President certifies that the war against Al Qaeda is ongoing and that there is "an investigation with a view toward prosecution, a prosecution, or a post-trial proceeding" in the case of the detainee.
Because it does not expressly limit the latter requirement to proceedings before Article III courts, the condition might arguably be satisfied by trial by military commission or some other administrative tribunal. Subsection c would authorize the Secretary of Defense to designate an appropriate location for the detentions authorized under the Act, and would list minimal requirements for the condition of detention to ensure humane treatment. The President may have the authority to issue a new order to authorize military commissions to try enemy combatants who are U.
See Ex parte Quinn, U. Section 6. Reports to Congress. Section 6 would require an annual report to Congress identifying each individual "subject to, or detained pursuant to the authority of [the] Act. Perhaps the phrase "subject to Section 7.
United States Person or Resident Defined. Section 7 borrows the definition of "U. It appears that H. This omission could be read either to imply that the President has the inherent authority under the Constitution to detain persons not covered under the definition in section 7, or unless Congress has provided such authority elsewhere, it could be read to preclude the detention of such persons as enemy combatants.
Section 8. Termination of Authority. Section 8 is a sunset provision terminating the above authority as of December 31, The authority would effectively terminate earlier if the armed conflict with Al Qaeda were to end prior to that date. Possible Legal Issues. Petitioners on behalf of U. While H. Some Constitutional Questions. The Supreme Court has never expressly upheld the administrative detention or internment of U.
Congressional Authority. In Ex parte Milligan,' the Supreme Court invalidated a military detention and sentence of a civilian for violations of the law of war, despite accusations that Milligan conspired and committed hostile acts against the United States. The Administration may take the view that only the President, and not Congress, has the constitutional authority to detain enemy combatants, but it appears from the historical survey above that the contention lacks any solid legal precedent.
The Korematsu decision is frequently cited as upholding the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, but the Supreme Court expressly limited its decision to the legality of excluding these citizens from declared military areas. Ex parte Endo invalidated the detention of a U. However, this authority was never exercised, and the EDA was repealed without any court having had the opportunity to evaluate its constitutionality.
Bill of Attainder. Lovett, U. Although the stated purpose for the detention appears to be preventive rather than punitive, the nature of the restraint and the requirement that non-members of Al Qaeda act "knowingly" probably make it punitive for the purpose of finding a bill of attainder. The requirement for an individualized finding of dangerousness would likely defeat any challenges that the Act amounts to a legislative determination of guilt.
Similarly, H. However, detention under the Act could continue only for so long as "an investigation with a view toward prosecution, a prosecution, or a post-trial proceeding" with respect to a particular detainee were ongoing, and only if the President certifies that detention is warranted to prevent further acts of terrorism, in which case detention could be permissible under ordinary penal statutes.
The legality of the detention will likely depend on the extent to which the procedures put in place by the executive satisfy the constitutional requirements for a temporary deprivation of liberty. See Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez U. Brown, U. Bull, 3 U. Salmon, 97 U. Due Process for Non-Resident Aliens. Aliens in the United States, whatever their immigration status, are "persons" whose liberty interests are protected by the Fifth Amendment.
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Understanding Article b Aiding the Enemy of the UCMJ Aiding or attempting to aid the enemy refers to the transfer of arms, ammunition, supplies, money, etc. Harboring or protecting the enemy requires the enemy is shielded without proper authority and the accused knew the other party was an enemy. Knowledge of the other party being an enemy may be proven through the use of circumstantial evidence. In order for giving intelligence to the enemy to be applicable, the information provided to the enemy must have been true or implied as true, the accused must have had knowledge the other party was an enemy, and the intelligence provided to the enemy was useful to the enemy.
The intelligence may have been conveyed directly or indirectly. Communicating with the enemy is the unauthorized communication, correspondence, or intercourse with the enemy. The intent, content, and method of communication, correspondence, or intercourse is irrelevant, and the offense is complete the moment the accused issues the communication, correspondence, or intercourse directly or indirectly. The accused must have known the other party was an enemy. Maximum Possible Punishment for Violations of Article b Anyone convicted of an Article b violation face a maximum possible punishment of death or other such punishment a court-martial deems appropriate.
How do you defend against Article b Aiding the Enemy charges? That the accused carried out the act as a direct movement towards fulfilling his purpose of helping the enemy and that it was not just preparation to do so. That the act of the accused would have resulted in aiding the enemy if unexpected circumstances had not intervened, preventing this from happening.
That the accused did this in a specific manner. That the harbored or protected person was the enemy. That the accused was fully aware that the person was an enemy. Note: a Circumstantial evidence is usually admissible to establish that knowledge existed. That he did so in a specific manner.
That the recipient of the intelligence information was the enemy. That this information was partially true, at the very least.
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