habeus

• “There's this thing in the Constitution called habeus corpus which you have to write in italics because it's Latin.”

  Deborah Kory: How to Interpret the Ten Commandments

• “I wonder why nobody has mentioned that Abe Lincoln also believed," his powers of chief executive allowed him to abridge individuals 'rights such as habeus corpus, trial by jury, free speech, and private property in order to preserve the union "(" Lincoln's Constitution "2003, Daniel Farber).”

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• “The Patriot Act, spying on American citizens, the TSA, “free-speech” cages, loss of habeus corpus, attacks, torture ..”

  Matthew Yglesias » A Friend in Need

• “It would reflect well on this blog were we to encounter one-half the volume or intensity of objections to faulty convictions (which lead to innocents spending years or decades in prison, perhaps on death row, consequent to prosecutorial neglect, incompetence or worse) as that expressed with respect to overruled grants of habeus corpus petitions.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Sixth Now the “Most Reversed” Circuit?

• “More important, how is any of this relevant to the original call for at least as much attention to wrongful convictions (which put innocents in prison, with essentially no accountability for law enforcement personnel) as is aimed at overturned habeus petitions (which, I believe, generally do not spare a prisoner a moment of incarceration).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Sixth Now the “Most Reversed” Circuit?

• “Arthur Kirkland wrote: It would reflect well on this blog were we to encounter one-half the volume or intensity of objections to faulty convictions (which lead to innocents spending years or decades in prison, perhaps on death row, consequent to prosecutorial neglect, incompetence or worse) as that expressed with respect to overruled grants of habeus corpus petitions.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Sixth Now the “Most Reversed” Circuit?

• “The prisoner would then have the alternative of going into court (if he knows how to) and seeking a writ of habeus corpus — except that * that* might get the attention of immigration, or waiting to be released.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Arizona Law is Much Worse than the Federal Law It is Supposedly Based On

• “A Multnomah County, Oregon judge today discharged a writ of habeus corpus filed on behalf of John Whitaker, according to”

  This is an archive of a past election

• “The Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) purported to do this for "unlawful enemy combatant [s]"; the problem is that under the statute the decision as to who is such a person falls in the unreviewable discretion of the executive branch, and the Supreme Court said habeus survived the MCA in Boumendiene v. Bush.”

  Discourse.net: Nation Mag Claims ICE has Network of Secret Detention Faciilities -- in the USA

• “Congress (or arguably, and by historical precedent, the President) suspends the writ of habeus corpus as regards the class of persons to whom the defendant belongs.”

  Discourse.net: Nation Mag Claims ICE has Network of Secret Detention Faciilities -- in the USA

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