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Today in Supreme Court History: August 1, 1942

On August 1, 1942, military commissions concluded for eight Nazi saboteurs, with the Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of these trials. This ruling addressed the legal authority to try enemy combatants captured on American soil during wartime.
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