Quite frankly, I'm surprised she's not citing some goofy "international law" UN statute as retroactive justification for Lincoln's unconstitutional suspension of habeas corpus.
Meanwhile you have a realm of immeasurably more credible jurists, not to mention the virtually unanimous view of the founding fathers themselves, who say that the suspension power belongs to Congress and Congress alone.
That list includes two chief justices, 3 associate justices, one president and founding father, delegates to the continental congresses and constitutional convention, and participants in the ratification convention. In justices alone, 5 still beats 1 and always will.
It's no surprise that someone who openly praises the slave power and denigrates the greatest American would have diversity stuck in their craw.
Walt
None of them had to deal with a giant nest of traitors.
Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice O'connor allow for that when they praise Lincoln.
Walt