His sworn duty as president is to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." He cannot do that by raping the Constitution.
[ftD #1159] While he did suspend the writ of habeas corpus eight different times during the course of the war, it was intended as a “preventative precaution, not as a punitive weapon”.
Purportedly good intent is no defense to Constitutional rape.
[ftD #1159] The early suspensions, I believe, were justified.
The early suspensions were effected by military officers, at the discretion of said military officers, as unlawfully authorized by other military officers, as unlawfully authorized by Abe the Constitutional rapist. He and his administration proceeded to ignore the clear opinion rendered by CJ Taney, acting as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
And four others -
In Re MacDonald, from the U.S. District Court in St. Louis
Ex Parte Benedict, from the U.S. District Court in New York
Murphy v. Porter, from the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia
...and a Circuit Court ruling by Associate Supreme Court Justice Nathan Clifford, sitting on the Boston U.S. Circuit Court.
Five disobeyed federal court orders would also be good for five articles of impeachment at any other time in our history.