Parker v. Levy

Congress by Art. I, § 8, cl. 14, has power “To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces.”

Articles 133 1 and 1342 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U. S. C. §§ 933 and 934, at issue in this case, trace their legitimacy to that power.

So far as I can discover the only express exemption of a person in the Armed Services from the protection of the Bill of Rights is that contained in the Fifth Amendment which dispenses with the need for “a presentment or indictment” of a grand jury “in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in…