Ignoring the very legislative intent of the Alien Sedition Acts, e.g., See the CONGRESSIONAL DEBATES: ALIEN ENEMIES pages1790-1791 where Representative Otis defends the bill and discretionary power delegated to the president under the Alien Sedition Acts:
“Mr. O. believed, that, to provide for this detention of the person, was all Congress could now do. If the bill was recommitted, he did not think any definite provision could be made. It was necessary the President should have the power of judging in this case, and that punishment ought not to depend upon the slow operations of a trial.”
Keep in mind in Hawaii v. Mankichi, 190 U.S. 197 (1903) our Supreme Court indicated:
“A thing may be within the letter of a statute and not within its meaning, and within its meaning, though not within its letter. The intention of the lawmaker is the law.”
Our Supreme Court has also instructed that:
The whole aim of construction, as applied to a provision of the Constitution, is to discover the meaning, to ascertain and give effect to the intent of its framers and the people who adopted it._____HOME BLDG. & LOAN ASSOCIATION v. BLAISDELL, 290 U.S. 398 (1934)
The bottom line is, the very purpose and legislative intent of the Alien Enemies Act was to provide the President with extraordinary power, including unobstructed discretionary deportation power, to deal with and remove aliens on American soil who may pose a threat to the general welfare of the United States and her citizens.
Judge Henderson is a disgrace to our legal system.
