Political Quotes

“Yes. And the In re Quirin case, which Hamdi cited and affirmed, was a fact pattern that went as follows: We had German saboteurs, some living in America before they went back to Germany--I think one or two may have been an American citizen--who landed on our shores with a plot to blow up different parts of America. During the course of their efforts, American citizens aided the Nazis. The Supreme Court said when an American citizen chose to help the Nazis at home, on our homeland, they were considered to be an enemy belligerent regardless of their citizenship, and we could detain one of our own when they sided with the enemy.”