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Did the Court Kill the Treason Charge?: Reassessing Cramer V. United States and Its Significance Paul T View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Florida State University College of Law Florida State University Law Review Volume 36 | Issue 4 Article 2 2009 Did the Court Kill the Treason Charge?: Reassessing Cramer v. United States and its Significance Paul T. Crane [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://ir.law.fsu.edu/lr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Paul T. Crane, Did the Court Kill the Treason Charge?: Reassessing Cramer v. United States and its Significance, 36 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. (2009) . http://ir.law.fsu.edu/lr/vol36/iss4/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Florida State University Law Review by an authorized administrator of Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW DID THE COURT KILL THE TREASON CHARGE?: REASSESSING CRAMER V. UNITED STATES AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE Paul T. Crane VOLUME 36 SUMMER 2009 NUMBER 4 Recommended citation: Paul T. Crane, Did the Court Kill the Treason Charge?: Reassessing Cramer v. United States and Its Significance, 36 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 635 (2009). DID THE COURT KILL THE TREASON CHARGE?: REASSESSING CRAMER V. UNITED STATES AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE PAUL T. CRANE* I. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 636 II. THE TREASON PROSECUTION OF ANTHONY CRAMER ......................................... 640 A. The Case Against Cramer .......................................................................... 640 B. The Supreme Court’s Decision in Cramer ................................................. 645 III. THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM REGARDING THE JUSTICES’MOTIVATIONS IN CRAMER ............................................................................................................ 653 A. Prior Scholarship on the Justices’ Motivations in Cramer ........................ 653 B. The Weaknesses of the Conventional Wisdom ............................................ 656 IV. REASSESSING THE JUSTICES’MOTIVATIONS IN CRAMER ................................... 660 A. Congressional Circumvention and the Treason Clause ............................. 661 1. Chief Justice Stone .............................................................................. 661 2. Justice Black ........................................................................................ 663 3. Justice Douglas .................................................................................... 664 4. Justice Jackson .................................................................................... 665 5. Justice Frankfurter .............................................................................. 666 B. The Purpose of the Treason Clause and the Frequency of Treason Prosecutions ............................................................................................... 667 1. Justice Frankfurter .............................................................................. 667 2. Justice Murphy .................................................................................... 668 3. Justice Rutledge ................................................................................... 670 C. Implications and Consequences ................................................................. 672 V. THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM REGARDING THE LACK OF TREASON PROSECUTIONS AFTER 1954 .............................................................................. 675 A. Prior Scholarship on the Disappearance of Treason Prosecutions ............ 675 B. The Weaknesses of the Conventional Wisdom ............................................ 677 VI. REASSESSING WHY THERE WERE NO TREASON PROSECUTIONS AFTER 1954 ... 680 A. Cramer, Congress, and Prosecutorial Discretion ....................................... 681 B. A Potential Critique and Another Explanation Considered ...................... 685 1. Why Did the DOJ Bring Treason Prosecutions After Cramer? ........... 685 2. Another Explanation Rejected: The Absence of a Formal Declaration of War ................................................................................................... 686 C. Implications and Consequences ................................................................. 693 VII. CONCLUSION ..................................................................................................... 695 *. Bristow Fellow, Office of the Solicitor General of the United States, 2008-2009. J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2007; M.A. History, University of Virginia, 2007. I first want to thank Charles W. McCurdy for the guidance, encouragement, and in- spiration he provided at every juncture. I also would like to thank the participants of the Legal History Workshop at the University of Virginia School of Law, in particular Barry Cushman, Risa Goluboff, John Harrison, Michael Klarman, Robert O’Neil, Jeffrey Schmitt, G. Edward White, and James Zucker for their helpful comments and suggestions. I am also grateful to Hugo Black, Jr., and the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michi- gan, for permission to publish materials from the papers of Justice Hugo Black and Justice Frank Murphy, respectively. A special thanks as well to my best editor, Alison Crane, for her unflagging support. I finally wish to make clear that the contents of this Article ex- press the views of the author only and do not express the views of the Department of Jus- tice, the Office of the Solicitor General, or anyone associated with those offices. 636 FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW [Vol. 36:635 I. INTRODUCTION On October 11, 2006, Adam Gadahn, also known as Azzam al- Amriki or “Azzam the American,” was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of treason.1 The indictment alleged that Gadahn, an American citizen, “knowingly adhered to an enemy of the United States, namely, al-Qaeda, and gave al-Qaeda aid and comfort, within the United States and elsewhere, with intent to betray the United States.”2 This charge was based on Gadahn’s participation in several videotapes produced by al-Qaeda between October 2004 and Septem- ber 2006, in which he appeared with al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, espoused his support for the terrorist organization, praised the attacks of September 11th and the bomb- ings in London and Madrid, and threatened future attacks against the United States.3 Notably, Gadahn was not in United States custo- dy when the indictment was issued and currently remains at large.4 While newsworthy at the time of its announcement, the Gadahn indictment is particularly significant because it marks the first time in over fifty years that the U.S. government has charged someone 1. Press Release, Dep’t of Justice, U.S. Citizen Indicted on Treason, Material Sup- port Charges for Providing Aid and Comfort to Al Qaeda (Oct. 11, 2006), available at http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2006/October/06_nsd_695.html [hereinafter Gadahn Press Re- lease]. Gadahn was also charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist or- ganization, specifically al-Qaeda, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2339B, as well as aiding and abetting in connection with the material support charge. First Superseding Indictment at 9, United States v. Gadahn, No. SA CR 05-254 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 2005) [hereinafter Gadahn Indictment], available at http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/documents/adam_indictment.pdf. 2. Gadahn Indictment, supra note 1, at 3; see also 18 U.S.C. § 2381 (2000) (“Whoev- er, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their ene- mies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of trea- son and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”). 3. Gadahn Indictment, supra note 1, at 3-8; see also Gadahn Press Release, supra note 1. Pursuant to the U.S. Constitution’s Treason Clause, which states that “[n]o Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court,” U.S. CONST. art. III, § 3, cl. 1, the indictment alleges five overt acts observed by at least two witnesses, namely five separate videotapes in which Gadahn appeared. Gadahn Indictment, supra note 1, at 3-8. 4. Gadahn Press Release, supra note 1. 2009] REASSESSING CRAMER 637 with treason.5 The last time an American was indicted for treason was October 27, 1954.6 The Gadahn indictment calls for a dusting off of the Treason Clause, including a reexamination of modern (i.e., post-World War II) treason jurisprudence. As Professor Carlton Larson recently ob- served: “The Treason Clause is one of the great forgotten clauses of the Constitution . Despite occasional flurries of public interest in the subject . legal scholarship on issues relating to treason is basi- cally moribund.”7 Several decades after its initial publication, Profes- sor James Willard Hurst’s work on the law of treason continues to dominate the field it essentially created.8 Hurst, like most other trea- son commentators, focused on pre-World War II issues, such as trea- 5. Id. (“Gadahn is the first person to be charged with treason against the United States since the World War II era.”); see also George P. Fletcher, Ambivalence About Trea- son, 82 N.C. L. REV. 1611, 1612 (2004) (“The last
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