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To: DoodleDawg
Then charge them with treason, try them in U.S. federal court, and convict them. Summarily rounding them up and shipping them to Gitmo is unconstitutional.

Not if habeas corpus is suspended. Lincoln did it and he is on Mt. Rushmore, the $5 bill and the penny. No one has a constitutional right to be tried in a U.S. District Court. The conspirators hung for assassinating Lincoln were convicted by a military commission without a jury. Strike out a common law jury, and there is no constitutional problem with military courts trying treason cases.
54 posted on 06/28/2021 7:14:23 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Dr. Franklin
Not if habeas corpus is suspended.

Habeas corpus has not been suspended, and even if it is that does not strip citizens of their Constitutional rights.

No one has a constitutional right to be tried in a U.S. District Court. The conspirators hung for assassinating Lincoln were convicted by a military commission without a jury.

In 1866 the Supreme Court ruled in Ex Parte Milligan that citizens cannot be tried by a military tribunal if federal or state courts are operating openly and freely. So unless something did away with the 5th and 6th Amendments you do, in fact, have a Constitutional right to trial. Your military tribunals are unconstitutional, though you don't seem to be much interested in what is Constitutional and what is not.

56 posted on 06/28/2021 8:04:34 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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