"The courts could not rule on Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus because they lacked jurisdiction to rule. The courts lacked jurisdiction to rule because Lincoln had suspended the writ of habeas corpus."
He's even cooked up a multi-paragraph excerpt from Berkeleyite law prof Daniel Farber saying little more than the same in about 10 times as many words.
"Cooked" is the correct word. He has bastardized what Farber actually wrote and claimed it as a "refutation." Farber did not present it like that.
capitan_kerryfugio stopped quoting before Farber wrote: "if this jurisdictional analysis is rejected, however, we should concede that Lincoln's action was unlawful."