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Yes, Benjamin "the Beast" Butler, then a Massachusetts lawyer and state legislator, argued the US government's case before the Supreme Court in Ex Parte Milligan, 71 US 2 (1866). He is credited with creating the government strategy for the respondent, the United States, along with US Attorney General Henry Stanbery and James Speed.
Butler claimed the President had unlimited power during war, and was quoted as saying, "He is the sole judge of the exigencies, necessities, and duties of the occasion, their extent and duration."
Milligan prevailed in this case.
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What US Supreme Court ruling held military tribunals could not try civilians when civilian courts were open?
Ex parte Milligan, 71 US 2 (1866)"Military commissions organized during the late civil war, in a State not invaded and not engaged in rebellion, in which the Federal courts were open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their judicial functions, had no jurisdiction to try, convict, or sentence for any criminal offense, a citizen who was neither a resident of a rebellious State nor a prisoner of war, nor a person in the military or naval service. And Congress could not invest them with any such power."Ex Parte Milligan case of 1866
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