[BroJoeK]

joshua c: "i thought the supreme court told him he couldnt do it
i guess they were wrong?"

One lunatic pro-Confederate Supreme Court justice -- Crazy Roger Taney -- mumbled his absurd opinion while buckling up his pants on leaving a house of... less than sterling repute.

President Lincoln was under no obligation to obey the mumblings of a demented treasonous old man.

Congress debated habeas corpus from July 1861 until March 1863, when it passed legislation authorizing the President to suspend habeas corpus.

Meanwhile:

"In the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis also suspended habeas corpus and imposed martial law.[37]
Shortly after his inauguration as president of the Confederacy,[38] an act of the Confederate Congress of February 27, 1862, was passed authorizing Davis to suspend the writ of habeas corpus and declare martial law "in such towns, cities, and military districts as shall, in his judgment, be in such danger of attack by the enemy".[39]"

[Lurker]

Thanks,

L

[hoosierham]

The important point is why not let the states withdraw from the union?
Especially if that was the will of their people as expressed through their elected representatives?