"[O]ne of the grievous charges brought against George III. was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. The whole of the reasoning is not applicable to this case, but I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of Africans, and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court." - John Quincy Adams,
"United States v. The Amistad" (1841)*
What we currently have is a mad emperor claiming the authority to place non citizens beyond seas for life imprisonment without even a trial who has already expressed his desire to do the same to citizens. As Adams noted in his successful argument before the Supreme Court, King George III was considered a tyrant for doing less.
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