Court Opinion

ID: 9419865
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 22:51:52.568743+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:21.023261
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Black,
concurring.
I am satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt, from the testimony and admissions of the petitioner himself, made in open court, that he had never at any time, either before or after his naturalization, deviated from his wholehearted allegiance to, and constant service of, the German Nazi Government.
I realize, as the dissent in this case emphasizes, the dangers inherent in denaturalizations. Had this judgment rested on the petitioner’s mere philosophical or political beliefs, expressed or unexpressed, I should not concur in its affirmance. But petitioner’s admissions as to his own conduct leave me in no doubt at all that he was, even in obtaining naturalization, serving the German Government with the same fanatical zeal which motivated *675the saboteurs sent to the United States to wage war. I am unable to say that Congress is without constitutional power to authorize courts, after fair trials like this one, to cancel citizenship obtained by the methods and for the purposes shown by this record.