Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
Not really because I figured the Supreme Court would eventually discard the ruling since Padilla is a citizen of the United States.

So was one of the Germans
From the link you provided - the court ruled something - because of his actions. So your attempt here falls on deaf ears.

Citizenship in the United States of an enemy belligerent does not relieve him from the consequences of a belligerency which is unlawful because in violation of the law of war. Citizens who associate themselves with the military arm of the enemy government, and with its aid, guidance and direction enter this country bent on hostile acts are enemy belligerents within the meaning of the Hague Convention and the law of war. It is as an enemy belligerent that petitioner Haupt is charged with entering the United States, and unlawful belligerency is the gravamen of the offense of which he is accused.

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The Court's opinion is inapplicable to the case presented by the present record. We have no occasion now to define with meticulous care the ultimate boundaries of the jurisdiction of military tribunals to try persons according to the law of war. It is enough that petitioners here, upon the conceded facts, were plainly within those boundaries, and were held in good faith for trial by military commission, charged with being enemies who, with the purpose of destroying war materials and utilities, entered or after entry remained in our territory without uniform-an offense against the law of war. We hold only that those particular acts constitute an offense against the law of war which the Constitution authorizes to be tried by military commission....

Now the American citizen of German parents born in Germany but naturalized - seems to have foresworn his status of being a citizen of the United States by training in Germany to conduct an act of sabatoge. In short he could of also be tried for Treason in the same military tribunal since they were caught.

Padilla's charges chould have been done in a military tribunal for the charge of treason if you want to get to the spefics - or even a regular criminal court for that matter - But like stated once already - I was never worried about the spefics of Padilla's charges because I figured the Supreme Court would eventually step in and tell the Government charge him as a citizen or set him loose.