Yaser Hamdi, US Citizen

Via Froomkin, we find that being a natural born citizen is apparently not sufficient constitutional protection for the US government to strip you of your citizenship and deport you. All without a trial.

You report that as a condition for releasing Yaser E. Hamdi, who was held without charges and in solitary confinement for about three years, the United States required that he “renounce his American citizenship.” The United States government has no authority to compel such a renunciation, and Mr. Hamdi’s proclamation that he is no longer an American is legally meaningless.

Mr. Hamdi was born in Louisiana. The United States Constitution defines anyone who is born in the United States as a citizen. Neither the State Department, the Justice Department nor the president has the authority to alter the Constitution unilaterally.

In Vance v. Terrazas, the Supreme Court made it clear that the government cannot coerce someone to surrender citizenship.

You simply have to wonder at what passes for sanity amongst the people who actually think this is a good idea. You have to wonder if the morons who support an administration who does this crap have any respect for or understanding of the constitution at all. You really have to wonder why anyone - anyone at all - wouldn't be voting for any random inanimate object for president just to get rid of this vile, corrupt regime we've been stuck with for the last four years.

Sick, twisted people without a shred of humanity left in them.

It boggles the mind.