[lepton]

I would point out, ninenot, that if spies and saboteurs captured in wartime were accepted as having the right to challenge the court system, they legally, according to our courts, have all other rights as well.

That does not follow logically. They were trying to claim that they had other rights, and were denied.

[exodus]

The Germans came into our country in time of war. We had already declared war on Germany and Japan the year before. Even so, the German men were able to fight being assigned trials in the military courts. They fought it out in civilian courts, in wartime. There case went all the way to the Supreme Court, who ruled that, as spies and saboteurs in time of war, they actually could be tried by the military court system.

I would point out, ninenot, that if spies and saboteurs captured in wartime were accepted as having the right to challenge the court system, they legally, according to our courts, have all other rights as well.
# 218 by exodus
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To: exodus
I would point out, ninenot, that if spies and saboteurs captured in wartime were accepted as having the right to challenge the court system, they legally, according to our courts, have all other rights as well.

"That does not follow logically.
They were trying to claim that they had other rights,
and were denied.
# 256 by lepton
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That's not true, lepton.
The Germans weren't trying to claim any rights.
They understood the American system, and knew that in civilian court, they would get by with a few years in jail and then deportation home after the war was over. They hadn't committed any crime, they had just planned to blow up things.

However, "planning" to blow up things in wartime
is called sabotage by the military courts,
and is punishable by death.