{"id":2587,"date":"2006-09-29T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2006-09-29T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T12:39:00","slug":"bye-bye-habeas-corpus-we-hardly-knew-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/09\/29\/08\/39\/bye-bye-habeas-corpus-we-hardly-knew-ye\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye Habeas Corpus, We Hardly Knew Ye"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/front\/la-na-detain29sep29,1,557934.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage&#038;ctrack=1&#038;cset=true\">The [US] Senate on Thursday approved President Bush&#8217;s plan to question and try foreign terrorism suspects before military judges \u00e2\u20ac\u201d without oversight by the federal courts &#8230; some lawmakers, Republicans as well as Democrats, called the move to suspend habeas corpus \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the demand for legal justification of one&#8217;s imprisonment \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a historic mistake, and one that could cause the entire bill to be struck down &#8230; The privilege of habeas corpus holds a venerated place in English and U.S. law. The U.S. Constitution says, &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/28\/AR2006092801763.html\">Unique rules &#8230; allow prosecutors &#8230; to use evidence collected through hearsay or coercion to seek criminal convictions. The bill rejects the right to a speedy trial and limits the traditional right to self-representation by requiring that defendants accept military defense attorneys. Panels of military officers need not reach unanimous agreement to win convictions &#8230; the bill immunizes U.S. officials from prosecution for cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The [US] Senate on Thursday approved President Bush&#8217;s plan to question and try foreign terrorism suspects before military judges \u00e2\u20ac\u201d without oversight by the federal courts &#8230; some lawmakers, Republicans as well as Democrats,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}