“If we did that here it’d be overturned in 90 seconds.”
That is because our system is a game of lawyers ,and what is legal has little in common with what is just.
“That is because our system is a game of lawyers ,and what is legal has little in common with what is just.”
Not that I stand terrorists, but punishing family members for the crimes of a member of the family fall under a forbidden “Bill of Attainder/Corruption of Blood” specifically forbidden by Article I, Section 10 of the US Constitution.
Punishing family members was a common British practice at the time.
Sorry to throw cold water on the fun, but in this rare case, the lawyers have it right.