Is that so? Then you should be able to name any given one of these "many people" who believed this, excluding of course the Lincoln administration itself, which invented the "power" for obvious reasons.
Why, Congress, of course.
When they refunded Andrew Jackson's $1,000 fine with interest. Heck, he wasn't even president when he suspended the Writ.
Now, you're going to explain how Jackson was going to get in touch with Congress and get them to suspend the Writ--- there being no telegraph of course --- in time to forestall the British forces on the door step of New Orleans?
Walt
Would that Lincoln could have obeyed the judge like Andrew Jackson eventually did. On paying the fine in New Orleans for having suspended to writ illegally, Jackson said:
Considering obedience to the laws, even when we think them unjustly applied, is the first duty of the citizen, and I do not hesitate to comply with the sentence you have heard pronounced; and I entreat you to remember the example I have given you of respectful submission to the administration of justice.
Didn't Congress remit Jackson's fine when he was about to become president a decade or more after he paid the fine?
Legislative acts of Congress do not overturn judicial decisions.
Give the names and provide the quote where they said somebody else could suspend it.
When they refunded Andrew Jackson's $1,000 fine with interest.
Jackson wasn't president and a simple refund of his fine does not make his act legal after the fact.