In a word.
No matter how Nick Fury argued, he could hardly change this fact anymore.
That was, Nick Fury had been helping the Skrull hide on Earth all these years. He might even have been secretly helping the Skrull collect all of Earth's intelligence.
This point became even more alarming after they learned from the surviving Skrull that the Skrull homeworld had already been destroyed.
The Federation's higher-ups now seriously suspected that Nick Fury had betrayed all of humanity. He had been secretly colluding with the Skrull, trying to hand Earth over to them and make it the new home of the Skrull who had lost theirs.
So...
The question was no longer whether Nick Fury was dangerous. He was already dangerous.
It was likewise born of concerns about the future.
Nick Fury had no right to represent all of humanity, so his suspicions and concerns had undoubtedly proven that he was a patient suffering from advanced persecutory delusions.
The Federation's higher-ups, however, had the authority to represent all of humanity. Therefore, their suspicions were reasonable deductions based on known facts.
Furthermore.
The Federation had not kept this hidden this time. It had already informed the other Four Major Overlords. In half a month, Nick Fury was expected to be escorted to London, then sent all the way from London to The Hague in the Netherlands.
Before the International Court in The Hague.
Nick Fury would be tried for crimes against humanity, crimes against Earth, crimes against... In short, it would be a relatively fair trial. It was just that, aside from the Five Major Overlords, no one else knew about it.
But...
Nick Fury still had the right to hire a lawyer. After all, the Five Major Overlords still cared about appearances, so during this period, each of