[Jpost] Lawyers for a group of Musselmen Americans barred from US air travel will challenge procedures surrounding the secretive "no fly" list in court on Friday, arguing they are unconstitutional because those on the list have no real way to clear their names.
| If they aren't U.S. citizens then they have no standing. Our government, and indeed every government, has long maintained an absolute right to decide who can and can't enter our country. |
| But this lot appear to be Americans. There ought, indeed, to be a way to challenge one's name on the list, and to change one's status if one truly is an innocent. Or to be forced to accept the truth if one is not. |
| Agreed, if they're Americans then there should be some sort of due process. |
The 13 plaintiffs in the case, who deny any links to terrorism, said they learned of their no-fly status when they were blocked from boarding commercial flights and complain they were denied any effective means of petitioning the government to be removed from the list.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued federal officials in 2010, saying the government provided no "meaningful opportunity to object" to being on the list, in violation of the constitutional right to due process.
| Foreign nationals outside the U.S. have no right to due process. |
| But nationals within the U.S. ought to. |
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