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H.R. 1416, The Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007
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Padric
June 6, 2007, 11:16pm (report abuse)This act is absolutely necessary to repair the damage done by President George Bush to our legal system. The denial of habeas corpus, a BASIC legal right, is absolutely unfathomable and completely unAmerican
Wayne Lanier, PhD
June 15, 2007, 12:13pm (report abuse)H.R.1416IH and S185 will help repair the Constitutional wreckage wrought by the Republican Majority of. We cannot retain our freedoms if we join the Religious terrorists who would abandon all freedoms.
rightview
June 27, 2007, 3:27pm (report abuse)There is CLEAR provision for suspension of habeas corpus in the U.S. Constitution Article 1 Section 9
anonymous
July 2, 2007, 10:38pm (report abuse)"The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."
There is no rebellion and there is no invasion that I know about. Unless you count fanatics who live in a third world country half a world away.
How many nukes did the Russians have during the Cold War? And now we are having our rights taken away for no good reason. The terrorist have already won.
Patriot
September 18, 2007, 5:51pm (report abuse)Rightview, if the "provision for suspension" is so clear, why can't you defend it? Just capitalizing "clear" doesn't clarify anything. Clearly we need not fear rebellion, 9/11 wasn't a rebellion. To consider 9/11 an invasion would require a very liberal view of the constitution. As conservatives we should guard the constitution better than that. Unfortunately we've done a very poor job of that for the past several years.
political.middle.ground
November 29, 2007, 6:08pm (report abuse)All habeas corpus does is require the government to show cause for the person's detention, and determine if such cause is legally sufficient. If the President is legally detaining individuals, habeas corpus will not disturb those detentions. The writ merely ensures that the one doing the detaining is not also the final say on its legality.
Anonymous
March 25, 2008, 11:54pm (report abuse)If you think about it, suspending habeas courpus would be like throwing nine of the first ten Amendments out the window. Quartering troops is all thats left.