I don’t think Congress has to go along.
I tend to agree with you.
The historical debate has not been resolved.
There is more to the article than what I posted. It’s worth the time to read, especially since the author is now a US Supreme Court Justice.
Sorry, I posted the article link on another thread. Here it is.
Common Interpretation
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-i/clauses/763
by Amy Barrett
Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School
Excerpt:
“The Clause does not specify which branch of government has the authority to suspend the privilege of the writ, but most agree that only Congress can do it.
President Abraham Lincoln provoked controversy by suspending the privilege of his own accord during the Civil War, but Congress largely extinguished challenges to his authority by enacting a statute permitting suspension. On every other occasion, the executive has proceeded only after first securing congressional authorization.
The writ of habeas corpus has been suspended four times since the Constitution was ratified:
Throughout the entire country during the Civil War;
in eleven South Carolina counties overrun by the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction;
in two provinces of the Philippines during a 1905 insurrection;
and in Hawaii after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.”