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To: ChurtleDawg
the president has NO authority to suspend Habeaus Corpus. Congress can ONLY overturn Habeaus during a rebellion or an invasion.

The Constitution says under what circumstances habeas corpus can be suspended. It is silent on who may suspend it.

38 posted on 04/04/2008 12:43:57 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
The Constitution says under what circumstances habeas corpus can be suspended. It is silent on who may suspend it.

Sure. They just happened to stick it in a list of things Congress can and can't do, in the article that defines and establishes Congress, and before the article establishing and defining the executive. What sense would it make to give the President the ability to unilaterally suspend oversight of himself? Can you really see the founders of this country doing that?

55 posted on 04/04/2008 1:07:56 PM PDT by BitBucket
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