Researching Habeas Corpus.
On Tuesday, October 17, the U.S. Congress passed a law, which was then signed by the President, restricting Habeas Corpus rights.
Habeas Corups in Latin literally means, "You have the body." It is a court petition which orders that a person being detained be produced before a judge for a hearing to decide whether the detention is lawful. Habeas corpus is a basic individual right against arbitrary arrest and imprisonment.
www.leanlegal.com/dictionary/h.asp
- JSTOR
All JSTOR results are considered scholarly. To see only scholarly sources in
To find the history of Habeas Corpus, type habeas corpus
Current Issues and Analysis from the Press:
Type habeas corpus in the search box of these databases:
- Newsbank
- Historical Perspective from the New York Times, from 1887 to 2003
- What are they saying in
2 comments:
Are you referring to the suspension during the Civil War? I have looked into the Wall Street Journal, the New York TImes, the BBC, and Australia's Herald Sun, and I have not found a single mention of this no matter how I set my search.
If you are asking about the current situation, here’s something from the New York Times (in newsbank)
http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=114DCF5DE794F710&p_docnum=14&p_queryname=3&p_product=AWNB&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=T6FP5BLQMTE2MjIzMTY3Mi42OTA0ODk6MToxMjo2Ni43LjEzMy4xOTM
If you can’t get that to open, just go to newsbank and search the NYT for “habeas corpus” This article (and editorial) from Oct. 19 was called “Dangerous New Order.”
The news story is here: http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=114D78E6CAA956F0&p_docnum=5&p_queryname=4&p_product=AWNB&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=T6FP5BLQMTE2MjIzMTY3Mi42OTA0ODk6MToxMjo2Ni43LjEzMy4xOTM
It’s called President Signs New Rules To Prosecute Terror Suspects
If you can't get those to open (if you are off-campus, you might have trouble), click the Newsbank link in the original post and then use the map to select the NY Times.
But yes, there were two other times in history when Habeas Corpus was suspended. The Civil War was one. Do you know the other?
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