It was a loser argument then and it was the loser argument again in a Supreme Court decision regarding the rights of American citizens.
The dissenting opinion claimed that ‘...the Constitution is not a suicide pact...” but the overwhelming opinion was that when it comes to our rights, it was the government’s duty to protect them despite the risk.
I’m sorry that I can’t recall the case but IIRC, it was in the late 1940s and the dissenting justice was Feinberg or Feinstein.
Well, Lincoln had the stones to threaten to lock up the entire Roger Taney court.
We’re at war. get with the program.