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To: neverdem

Has Bush suspended Habeus Corpus?

63 posted on 01/01/2004 4:33:52 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (Submitting approval for the CAIR COROLLARY to GODWIN'S LAW.)

To: Pan_Yans Wife

Has Bush suspended Habeus Corpus?

I guess he's trying to do that for enemy combatants. That's OK with me.

67 posted on 01/01/2004 4:43:37 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi min oi)

To: Pan_Yans Wife

"Has Bush suspended Habeus Corpus?"

My foggy recollection is that habeas corpus can only be suspended if the "courts are closed."

There is a law review article on the subject, that is in Google's cache. A section is titled "II. Civil War Military Commissions and Suspension of Habeas Corpus"

http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:0wGAU75UZ0sJ:www.law.ohio-state.edu/lawjournal/french.htm+%22courts+are+closed%22+%22suspend+habeas+corpus%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8

72 posted on 01/01/2004 5:12:36 PM PST by John Beresford Tipton

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