He concentrates on criminal sentencing, appeals and habeas corpus matters.
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Nineteen hours and a habeas corpus petition titled Darweesh v.
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What would criminal lawyers do if habeas corpus were suspended?
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I first saw him in Habeas Corpus on stage in 1973.
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I first saw him in Habeas Corpus on stage in 25.
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Above, I described his project as maintaining access to habeas corpus.
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Habeas corpus, an ancient common-law principle, guards against arbitrary imprisonment.
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In 2015 a court in New York issued a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of two chimpanzees, Hercules and Leo, but the judge changed her mind the next day, deleting the reference to habeas corpus.
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It's similar in theory to the habeas corpus petition in the States.
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Habeas corpus attorneys must be always advocating on behalf of their clients.
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Habeas corpus is another complicated but important area in need of reform.
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Is detaining a suspected terrorist lawful or a violation of habeas corpus?
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He was an optimist, he said in his 2015 article on habeas corpus.
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The approach made it much harder for detainees to win habeas corpus cases.
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Not once did the appeals court uphold a detainee's grant of habeas corpus.
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President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in the Civil War.
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"In this context the need for habeas corpus is more urgent," he added.
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The order suspends habeas corpus and allows courts to hold trials behind closed doors.
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These do not include those underwriting such rights as habeas corpus and press freedom.
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In 2008, Allison's attorneys questioned Seifert as part of Allison's federal habeas-corpus petition.
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The boldest legal challenge has come from attempts to give animals habeas corpus rights.
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It has nothing to do with the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus.
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He voted in favor of granting habeas corpus rights to Guantanamo detainees in 2008.
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JFK's attorney general's emergency briefcase, for instance, would have allowed him suspend habeas corpus.
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His habeas corpus petition remains pending in the district court before Judge Tanya Chutkan.
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In blunt terms, AEDPA made it harder to use your legal right to habeas corpus.
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"I have to cry in my pillow," one immigrant wrote in his habeas corpus brief.
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Boumediene argued that he and other petitioners were unconstitutionally denied the writ of habeas corpus.
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Back then Mr. Marcos had prefaced martial rule by suspending the writ of habeas corpus.
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He also held that the Guantanamo prisoners were eligible for habeas corpus (Boumediene v. Bush).
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It has argued that immigrants can file individual habeas corpus petitions to challenge their detentions.
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Fogle, 40, this week sought a writ of habeas corpus from the federal court in Denver.
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One group of immigration lawyers put together a petition for a writ of habeas corpus overnight.
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During wartime, Jackson arrested a Federal District Court judge who issued a writ of habeas corpus.
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The issue could arise when reviewing an inevitable habeas corpus lawsuit filed by an ISIS detainee.
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The most memorable scenes in the second episode, "Habeas Corpus," involve its occasional narrator, Dale Lacy.
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Habeas corpus is a legal procedure that keeps a government from holding a person without showing cause.
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He vigorously endorsed the death penalty and restrictions on prisoner appeals through a writ of habeas corpus.
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They also filed a habeas corpus petition arguing the US government had denied his due process rights.
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It also enshrines fundamental principles such as the right to legal representation upon arrest and habeas corpus.
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Mr. Thuraissigiam was in deportation proceedings when he filed a habeas corpus petition in the federal court.
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Her replacement was Senator Richard Gordon, who recently suggested giving Duterte the power to suspend habeas corpus.
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The new version adds the presumption of innocence in criminal cases and the right to habeas corpus.
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Appellate court ruling: The Georgia Supreme Court denied Foster's writ of habeas corpus, effectively rejecting his challenge.
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Previously, the NhRP was able to secure habeas corpus orders for chimpanzees, which were ultimately rejected in court.
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But they conclude that sitting on a capital case concerning habeas corpus does not amount to material cooperation.
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Nirider filed the writ of habeas corpus that led to last week's judicial order quashing Dassey's conviction. 2.
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Steven Wise, who heads the group, is arguing for habeas corpus, that is, the right to bodily autonomy.
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His attorneys filed a writ for habeas corpus claiming he is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for execution.
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The defendant first sought a federal writ of habeas corpus challenging his detention in 1988, court records show.
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Referred to as "the Great Writ," habeas corpus affords citizens the right to challenge their arrests and jailing.
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Gardner Dunn's family filed a habeas corpus request to the court to find out what happened to him.
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The government argues the proper way for immigrants to seek relief is by filing a habeas corpus petition.
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Despite not knowing him originally, the ACLU filed a habeas corpus case on his behalf in October 2017.
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Lawsuits from immigrants seeking habeas corpus petitions to be released from detention have been delayed for the shutdown.
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His legal actions — appeals, motions to vacate, petitions, writs of mandamus and habeas corpus — have all been denied.
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The court ruled the next year that prisoners in the Guantanamo Bay have a constitutional right to habeas corpus.
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday it had no comment on the habeas corpus petitions or subsequent filings.
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The saga started when three congressmen from Lula's Workers' Party (PT) filed a habeas-corpus petition demanding his release.
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A habeas corpus hearing in that case is scheduled for July 7, and Mr. Cosby is expected to attend.
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So far, all applications for habeas corpus relief for animals have been turned down in American and European courts.
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In 2005 animal-rights organisations in Brazil applied for habeas corpus protection for Suiça, a chimpanzee in a zoo.
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While lawyers there initially did not know Mr. Alsheikh, the A.C.L.U. filed a habeas corpus case on his behalf.
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But as they looked for another way to stop holding Mr. Alsheikh, his habeas corpus case complicated those deliberations.
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A habeas corpus petition is pending in the Court of Appeals, but her lawyers have been unsuccessful so far.
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The law denied habeas corpus to captives, rendering even free black people in the North vulnerable to slave catchers.
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He was therefore considering suspending a writ of habeas corpus, which requires the state to justify arrests and detentions.
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It held that the Guantánamo detainees had a constitutional right to petition federal judges for writs of habeas corpus.
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Bush, which extended the writ of habeas corpus (the right to go to court to contest imprisonment) to jihadist terrorists.
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In regards to Brendan's case, Nirider and Drizin argue that recent legislation has hindered his ability to claim habeas corpus.
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A decision in favor of the chimps would have established an important precedent, as habeas corpus only applies to persons.
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The ACLU filed a habeas corpus lawsuit on his behalf to target his indefinite detention without charges or a lawyer.
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In 1985, Carter was released on a petition of habeas corpus, but not before spending nearly 85033 years in prison.
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What about President Lincoln when challenged constitutional rights and liberties when he in fact suspended the writ of habeas corpus?
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On December 14th a court in New York state heard a request to grant her a writ of habeas corpus.
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He concentrates on criminal sentencing, appeals, and habeas corpus matters, as well as the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts.
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Mr. Connell handled the habeas corpus proceedings for 2002 D.C. Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad, who was executed in 2009.
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But the lawyers stayed to assist families and write habeas corpus petitions for those detained for more than six hours.
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Ms. Anderson will also update her multimedia installation "Habeas Corpus," which was shown at the Park Avenue Armory in 2015.
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This episode gives a deep explainer on AEDPA, a bill that restricted the right of habeas corpus in the federal courts.
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He filed a writ of habeas corpus, demanding the request to be canceled and asking for the representation of a lawyer.
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"I have to cry in my pillow," an immigrant identified as ICE detainee No. 1 said in his habeas corpus brief.
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The ACLU filed a habeas corpus petition in early October demanding that the Pentagon let the organization's lawyers contact the American.
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The case, which concerns the fundamental question of who is entitled to seek habeas corpus, will affect thousands of asylum seekers.
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The A.C.L.U. has filed a habeas corpus lawsuit on the man's behalf challenging his indefinite detention without charges or a lawyer.
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From 22014 to mid-22009, Federal District judges considered fifty-three Guantánamo habeas-corpus petitions and granted thirty-eight of them.
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Critics have argued for years that it either went too far, by extending the Constitution's protection for habeas corpus to noncitizen terrorism suspects outside the United States, or not nearly far enough, by extending habeas corpus only to Guantánamo and by not providing guidance on the procedural, evidentiary and substantive rules to govern these habeas cases.
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In 2006, a fellow inmate aware of Hartfield&aposs situation helped him file a writ of habeas corpus that revived his prosecution.
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It stands for freedom and free speech and habeas corpus and the rule of law and above all it stands for democracy.
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US. The panel ruled that it didn't have jurisdiction and so couldn't consider al Awda's (also transliterated "al Odah") habeas corpus petition.
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Maybe they just remember his suspension of habeas corpus, the kind of steel-fisted governing that Trump admires so much in Putin.
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It stands for freedom, and free speech, and habeas corpus, and the rule of law, and above all it stands for democracy.
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That, said several legal scholars this week, violated habeas corpus, the basic constitutional right to challenge the legality of imprisonment or detention.
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The hearing centered on a habeas corpus lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in October on behalf of the man.
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Patients' lawyers can also file writs of habeas corpus or petitions for restoration of sanity to have their cases heard in court.
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The most mysterious phrase for me as a child was "habeas corpus"; it wasn't a recent invention, but it was newly common.
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It's the first time in U.S. history, and probably world history, that a judge has issued a habeas corpus order for an elephant.
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Nonhuman Rights Project lawyer Steven Wise had been seeking habeas corpus relief for the chimps, saying they had a right to bodily autonomy.
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Lula's defence team played for time, filing procedural motions at the appeal court and making its petition for habeas corpus to the STF.
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The new version adds the presumption of innocence in criminal cases and the right to a lawyer immediately upon arrest and habeas corpus.
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It's a good list, not good enough to make you forget about habeas corpus and the cruelty of indefinite detention, but pretty good.
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The organization filed its petition for a writ of habeas corpus at the US District Court for the District of Columbia last October.
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For its part, the US government has also argued that there's no habeas corpus at Guantanamo because the Constitution does not apply there.
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Mr. Gershengorn responded that no such hearings were required but that the immigrants could file individual habeas corpus petitions to challenge their detentions.
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The issue whether a nonhuman animal has a fundamental right to liberty protected by the writ of habeas corpus is profound and far-reaching.
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Magna Carta has also been cited as providing the essential foundation for the contemporary powers of Parliament and legal principles such as habeas corpus.
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He has appealed an earlier decision by a Supreme Court justice who rejected a habeas corpus writ his lawyers had filed seeking his release.
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The ultimatum followed a decision by the supreme court (the STF) on the previous day to reject a habeas corpus petition by Lula's lawyers.
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The American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing Doe in his habeas corpus petition, has until midday Wednesday to respond to the government filing.
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Shortly before Friday's deadline, Brazil's Superior Court of Justice, the nation's highest appellate court, rejected a habeas corpus request to delay the prison time.
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On April 4, the day before the Federal Supreme Court rejected Mr. da Silva's habeas corpus appeal, the commander of the Brazilian Army, Gen.
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"The central purpose of habeas corpus is to release autonomous beings from illegal imprisonment," the group argued in its petition, according to ABC News.
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If Mr. Trump shuts down the boards, lawyers for detainees would probably use that absence of any process to bring new habeas corpus challenges.
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The organization that fought on their behalf, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), was seeking a writ of habeas corpus, or a right to bodily autonomy.
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Schwartz was summoned to appear before the CPI and, like Fidelis, similarly filed for a writ of habeas corpus, demanding an extension for his appearance.
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But Ahilan Arulanantham, the attorney for the immigrants in the class action lawsuit, said habeas corpus cases can take anywhere from six to 19 months.
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Bush, when he wrote a 5-4 decision defying the president and extending the constitutional right of habeas corpus to wartime detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
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In the U.S., under habeas corpus, people charged with criminal offenses receive custody hearings shortly after being apprehended and they may be released on bail.
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And on Wednesday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the highest criminal court in the state, denied his application for a writ of habeas corpus.
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A principal goal of AEDPA was to circumscribe the scope of federal habeas corpus review — that is, federal court review of prior state court convictions.
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The group filed a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Alexandros was forcibly taken, said Anel Ortega, a lawyer who works with GIRE.
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He filed a habeas corpus petition in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. in July 2004, shortly after the Supreme Court ruled in Rasul v.
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"..Scoop them up, charge them with treason and, under habeas corpus, detain them indefinitely at Gitmo," Clarke reportedly said in a radio interview in 2015.
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Finally, petitioners filed a petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive relief with the federal court overnight in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Consider Abraham Lincoln, who committed an act that is the very definition of tyranny under our Constitution: He unilaterally suspended habeas corpus in the United States.
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Last weekend, Mr. Duterte warned that if lawlessness escalated in the country, he might suspend the writ of habeas corpus to allow for arrests without warrants.
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A president could invoke President Lincoln's suspension, over the objection of the Supreme Court chief justice, of habeas corpus, the foundational right to protest one's detention.
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The court invalidated a provision in that law, called the Military Commissions Act, that denied habeas corpus rights to detainees at the military detention facility. Jan.
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Afonso said he will file for habeas corpus, which requires Amaro be brought to court and released unless lawful grounds can be shown for his detention.
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After all, by the end of second episode "Habeas Corpus," viewers find out Henry's stepdad Alan Pangborn (Scott Glenn) is convinced The Kid is the literal Devil.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A Brazilian appeals court denied on Friday two habeas corpus requests for the Chief Executive Officer of JBS, Wesley Batista, and his brother Joesley.
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Two Iraqi refugees detained at Kennedy Airport in New York have filed a writ of habeas corpus seeking to be released, The New York Times reported Saturday.
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Criminal defendants in tribal courts have the right of habeas corpus review in federal court, and, in certain circumstances, even a right to be released pending review.
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When in 2008 the justices examined the reach of the guarantee in Boumediene v Bush, they extended habeas corpus protections to non-citizen detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
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Maryland did not secede from the Union only because of the suspension of habeas corpus by President Abraham Lincoln and the selective jailing of the state legislature.
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The Constitution itself is filled with English legal terms (such as habeas corpus, and privileges and immunities) that cannot be fully grasped without understanding the English heritage.
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It held that like the Military Commissions Act that the Supreme Court invalidated in that case, the immigration law amounted to an unconstitutional "suspension" of habeas corpus.
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Related: Watch 'The Architect,' VICE News' interview with James Mitchell How the public release of Abu Zubaydah's declaration will factor into his ongoing habeas corpus case remains unclear.
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Despite the earlier convictions and the new charges, Brazil's Supreme Court accepted a habeas corpus plea on Tuesday filed by Dirceu's defense and ordered his release from jail.
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Around 11 AM, Jeannie R. Sternberg, then an attorney from the Habeas Corpus Resource Center in San Francisco, came into the visiting room holding the stay of execution.
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In the event that the Senate were to cite Flynn for contempt and order him to be imprisoned, he could seek court review through a habeas corpus petition.
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A more notable act of defiance occurred early in the Civil War when President Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus to foil a potential Confederate takeover of Maryland's government.
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Afterward, a group of bishops issued a pastoral letter that deplored torture, the denial of prisoners' rights to a full legal defense and the suspension of habeas corpus.
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He became the central figure is Anderson's "HABEAS CORPUS" at Park Avenue Armory in 2015, his image projected the size of the seated Lincoln inside the Lincoln Memorial.
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The plan was the latest twist in a habeas corpus case that has raised novel legal issues about the rights of individual Americans and the government's wartime powers.
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LIMA, Peru — Peru's Constitutional Tribunal approved a habeas corpus request Monday to free the opposition leader Keiko Fujimori from preliminary detention while she is investigated for alleged corruption.
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The court ruled, in an opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy, that the detainees had a constitutional right to seek habeas corpus, the ancient English remedy for illegal detention.
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The ruling stems from an habeas corpus requested by a former employee at state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA and may be used to annul corruption sentences.
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Legal pressure to resolve his fate has been building since the American Civil Liberties Union filed a habeas corpus lawsuit in October challenging his detention on his behalf.
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He defied a writ of habeas corpus, the legal privilege recognized by the Constitution which allows someone being detained to insist that a judge look into his case.
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There are references to markets and recognition of private property, foreign investment, small businesses, gender identity, the internet, the right to legal representation upon arrest and habeas corpus.
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Cori Crider, a lawyer with the international human rights group Reprieve, which represented Mr. Shokuri in a habeas corpus lawsuit in the United States, said the organization was delighted.
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Now, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a petition of habeas corpus — a report of an unlawful imprisonment — for three elephants working at the traveling Commerford Zoo, based in Connecticut.
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In 20023, Mr al-Alwi's habeas corpus plea—disclaiming ties to al-Qaeda and asserting he never took up arms against America—was rebuffed in a federal district court.
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It was more than six years after the establishment of the Guantanamo Bay detention camps that the Supreme Court ruled on the habeas corpus rights of persons detained there.
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It has been filing writs of habeas corpus on behalf on wildlife, such as chimpanzees and elephants, to request that they be moved from captivity to an animal sanctuary.
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However, in a case in May 2018 involving Tommy, a chimpanzee, one of the judges said he thought the main argument for denying habeas corpus to chimps was wrong.
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On Friday, he warned that he may use his executive power to tackle lawlessness in the Philippines by suspending habeas corpus, a legal safeguard against arbitrary arrest and detention.
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President Duterte has drawn comparisons with Mr. Marcos for the ruthlessness of the current campaign against illicit drugs and for threats to suspend habeas corpus or impose martial law.
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The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a habeas corpus lawsuit challenging the man's detention, winning a right to speak with him and gain his consent to represent him.
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Essas forças de direita me condenaram, me prenderam, ignoraram a esmagadora evidência de minha inocência e me negaram Habeas Corpus apenas para tentar me impedir de concorrer à presidência.
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Giving undocumented people a chance make to make habeas-corpus claims undermines Congress's aim to remove aliens "expeditiously" and to "prevent abuse of the asylum system", the brief reads.
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The organization alleged that the elephant was therefore similar to a person with the right to liberty under the principle of habeas corpus, which guards against being detained unlawfully.
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This person spent thousands of dollars on a useless immigration attorney and was only released after writing his own habeas corpus petition, which he eventually filed in federal court.
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The stay, which came in response to a habeas corpus petition filed by the ACLU, means that anyone already in custody in the US under the order cannot be deported.
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Battisti's lawyer, Igor Sant'Anna, told Reuters that he had sought a habeas corpus injunction last week due to the risk that President Michel Temer's government could agree to Italy's request.
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His family had filed a writ of habeas corpus in a court in the eastern city of Lahore in the belief that he had been unlawfully detained by unknown authorities.
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His project was to keep the habeas corpus door propped open as long as possible in the face of the Supreme Court's evident determination to shut it ever more tightly.
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When former Prime Minister Tony Blair's administration proposed holding terrorist suspects for 90 days without charge, parliament shot down the idea amid worries over the potential impact on habeas corpus.
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"In the night, it gets so cold in the cell and when l was in boxers and T-shirt, I was terribly cold," another said in a habeas corpus filing.
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The moratorium spurred the Justice Department to appeal government losses in habeas corpus lawsuits, and in 2010, an appeals court instructed judges to interpret ambiguous evidence more toward the government.
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After 9/11, under President George W. Bush, the U.S. used torture, illegal domestic surveillance, suspended habeas corpus for terrorism suspects and used unconstitutional kangaroo military tribunals for the same.
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Earlier Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sidestepped a question about whether Trump's use of the word invasion means he intends to suspend Posse Comitatus or habeas corpus.
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After the arrest, the company filed a habeas corpus petition that was reviewed and granted by a judge in Sergipe's highest state court early Wednesday, leading to Mr. Dzodan's release.
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From 2010 to 2012, the appeals court systematically turned back habeas corpus cases brought by detainees, instructing lower-court judges to use more government-friendly standards for interpreting ambiguous evidence.
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He has sided with the government in cases involving habeas corpus petitions from detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and has voted against criminal defendants more often than his liberal colleagues have.
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But U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson said the government's evidence against Slahi was thin and granted his petition for habeas corpus in March 2010, ordering him to be released.
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If the sergeant-at-arms did manage to detain Mr. McGahn, the courts would almost certainly find they have jurisdiction to consider a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
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If that weren't enough, he was a war criminal who suspended habeas corpus and executed prisoners for minor infractions during his time as a general in the War of 1812.
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Yee will remain in detention until his case is ruled on a final time; his lawyers have filed a habeas corpus claim, which, as of this writing, has not been accepted.
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"In the night, it gets so cold in the cell and when l was in boxers and T-shirt, I was terribly cold," he said, according to his habeas corpus filing.
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For instance, the U.S. legal system grants prisoners the right—known as habeas corpus—to challenge the constitutionality of their imprisonment, including the trial and sentencing phrases that placed them there.
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"The train may have left the station," the human-rights lawyer Chel Diokno told me, in reaction to Mr. Duterte's recent warning that the writ of habeas corpus might be suspended.
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In habeas corpus cases, for example, he broadly interpreted the military's power to hold people in wartime detention even when the evidence of their suspected ties to terrorism is relatively weak.
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The vote was 7 to 4, with the majority saying that Mr. McCarthan had filed his challenge too late under a federal law that places strict limits on habeas corpus petitions.
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These right-wing forces convicted me, imprisoned me, ignored the overwhelming evidence of my innocence and denied me habeas corpus only to try to stop me from running for the presidency.
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Mr. Darweesh was released on Saturday after lawyers filed a writ of habeas corpus in federal court seeking freedom for him, as well as for another Iraqi detained at the airport.
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Late on Friday, Battisti's lawyers said he had been granted habeas corpus, a court injunction ordering his release, and that they were trying to get him freed as soon as possible.
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After Guantánamo's image became toxic worldwide, and the Supreme Court ruled that the judicial branch could hear habeas corpus lawsuits by the detainees, Mr. Bush began trying to close the prison.
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Bush The Supreme Court held that detainees have a right to a writ of habeas corpus and that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 was an unconstitutional suspension of that right.
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In December, Dassey's lawyers filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, hoping to get another shot at freeing him.
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Obama, overturned a district judge's grant of habeas corpus to Mohammed Al-Adahi, a Yemeni who had once attended an Al Qaeda training camp and stayed at an Al Qaeda guesthouse.
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That's because in a habeas corpus case the issue is whether a trial judge did something that was within the range authorized by law — not whether the law required the death penalty.
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Duterte mentioned habeas corpus on Friday in the context of both the southern unrest and his war on drugs and said building cases for arresting suspects took too much time and resources.
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For example, in 2008, he wrote the majority opinion in a 5-4 decision declaring unconstitutional a federal law that prevented Guantanamo detainees from having access to federal court via habeas corpus.
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He gave prisoners held at the Guantánamo Bay detention center the right to habeas corpus, rejecting the executive branch's attempt to create a legal black hole beyond the reach of any court.
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Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is overseeing the habeas corpus case, has already made clear that she does not think he has a right to be brought back to the United States.
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A web of precedents, statutes and procedural rules ensnares even the best-represented defendants who try to challenge their state-court convictions or sentences through petitions for habeas corpus in federal court.
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It can hold somebody in contempt, it can literally order the person to go into the basement jail cell and that person would have to court to seek a rid of Habeas corpus.
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Remember, President Obama wanted to bring all the Gitmo detainees to New York City for trial, and America said absolutely not, because as soon as they get here, they get habeas corpus rights.
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EST: In a statement, Nonhuman Rights Project president Steve Wise said that the Connecticut Superior Court dismissed the organization's petition for writ of habeas corpus on behalf of the three Commerford Zoo elephants.
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The bloodshed required to end slavery almost ended our democracy with it — habeas corpus was suspended, a third of American states sat out the 1864 election, and the South was under military occupation.
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Judge Reinhardt was greatly troubled by the Supreme Court's turn against habeas corpus, the age-old means for a prisoner challenging the legality of his conviction or confinement to get before a judge.
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The problems of unseemliness and habeas corpus delays are solved by eliminating arrest and detention from the process and limiting sanctions to monetary fines ranging from $25,85033 to $250,000 paid by contemnors personally.
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It said this entitled chimpanzees to many of the same rights, and sought "habeas corpus" relief to win freedom for Tommy and Kiko, each held by a private owner in upstate New York.
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Like many federal judges, especially those in large metropolitan areas or near ports of entry, Patel said she handled various immigration matters: asylum cases, deportations, removals and petitions for release, or habeas corpus.
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The new legal challenge represents the sharpest test yet of America's commitment to its most important founding principles — the guarantee of due process and the right to habeas corpus — at the Guantánamo prison.
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The Supreme Court held that even non-citizens outside the country had rights, in particular, the Constitutional right to habeas corpus, a right of action under both a federal law and the Constitution.
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The Supreme Court held that even non-citizens outside the country had rights, in particular, the Constitutional right to habeas corpus, a right of action under both a federal law and the Constitution.
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Only months earlier, President Bill Clinton, who faced a coming election in a tough-on-crime era, signed into law a bill that curbed the number of habeas corpus petitions by death row inmates.
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Saturday morning, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Iraqi refugees Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, who were among the JFK detainees.
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The Supreme Court began to nudge the camps towards at least partially deferring to American law, declaring that detainees had the right to petition for habeas corpus to challenge the reasons for their confinement.
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In their application for a writ of habeas corpus, the defense also argued that testimony from the child victims placed all four women in the apartment at the same time during the sexual assault.
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The decision by Justice Luiz Fux prevents the Brazilian government from extraditing Battisti until the full court can rule on habeas corpus request from Battisti's lawyers, a ruling that is expected within two weeks.
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But after they won the right to habeas corpus, an American judge — who did have access to classified intelligence — ruled that the evidence of any embassy plot was too thin to support the accusations.
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Bruno, who confessed to his involvement in the crime, was released last month after his lawyers applied for a writ of habeas corpus because the Brazilian courts were too slow to hear his appeal.
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Many mothers like her were lining up, habeas corpus (a writ ordering a person in custody to be brought before a court) papers in hand, attempting to find out what happened to their children.
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To accused fugitives arrested under its authority, it denied the most basic right enshrined in the Anglo-American legal tradition: habeas corpus — the right to challenge, in open court, the legality of their detention.
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Bush (6900) regarding the right of habeas corpus petitions by enemy combatants held in United States Guantánamo Naval Base in Cuba, the Supreme Court seemed to suggest the continued validity of the insular cases.
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"Detaining an American citizen fighting for ISIS in Syria puts this whole controversial argument about the AUMF before a court, because he has a right of habeas corpus to challenge his detention," Waxman said.
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Detainees' lawyers began filing habeas-corpus petitions for their clients in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. Some Administration officials saw these cases as a way of fulfilling Obama's promise to empty the prison.
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He arrested a state legislator who had resisted calls to suspend habeas corpus, and then ordered the man guarding the legislator to arrest anyone trying to serve a write of habeas to free him.
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If there are procedures in England similar to a U.S. writ of habeas corpus, Madonna could petition for the courts to recognize the New York court order and force Guy Ritchie to produce the boy.
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But it was deadly serious: a contest over the Constitution and over the legal architecture — most often, the law and rules concerning habeas corpus — that either enables or blocks an individual's assertion of constitutional rights.
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After filing a writ of habeas corpus last week, seeking proof of any wrongdoing in order to justify his continued detention, Hickey's Brazilian law firm argued it expects this week to receive a favorable response.
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The most dire remedy the national government is allowed is only the limited suspension of habeas corpus (the right of people to challenge their detention by the government) during an enemy invasion or domestic insurrection.
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In 2015, for her installation work "Habeas Corpus," she live-streamed a video of Mohammed el Guarani, a Guantanamo Bay detainee who was imprisoned for 8 years, into the Park Avenue Armory in New York.
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Shortly after 28503/22019, Bush turned back the clock to before 1215 (when the Magna Carta was signed), formally suspending habeas corpus and claiming a prerogative to imprison indefinitely anyone he labeled a terrorist suspect.
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After filing appeal after appeal, Mr. Skakel went for a legal "Hail Mary," submitting a habeas corpus petition asking a court to overturn his conviction on grounds that his defense lawyer did a poor job.
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The A.C.L.U. reported back to the judge this month that the man had told them he wanted to pursue the habeas corpus lawsuit challenging his detention and that he wanted the rights group to represent him.
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The question of whether these undocumented aliens are protected by habeas corpus is being considered by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, in a case that was argued on May 17.
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Once in Guantánamo, the detainees would have the right to file habeas corpus lawsuits challenging the legality of their detention, raising the risk of a ruling that the larger war effort against ISIS has been illegal.
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Bush (85033) regarding the right of habeas corpus petitions by enemy combatants held in United States Guantánamo Naval Base in Cuba, the Supreme Court seemed to suggest via dicta the continued validity of the insular cases.
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Going back for the last five years, courts in the Fourth Circuit (based in Richmond, Va., and covering Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and the Carolinas) granted certificates of appealability in all 2000 capital habeas corpus appeals.
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Consequently, when I asked video game librarians what advice they might pass on to habeas corpus attorneys trying to select PS3 games to donate to the Detainee Library, many hesitated, because it wasn't their area of expertise.
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On May 22, attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the law firm DLA Piper LLP filed a habeas corpus petition in federal district court saying he has a right to a bond hearing.
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The suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War, the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, and the use of federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock all took place through executive orders.
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One of the Algerians was later the named plaintiff in a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court in 2008 establishing that detainees at the American naval base in Cuba had a constitutional right to habeas corpus hearings.
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The writ of habeas corpus in our Constitution mandates that a judge review and pronounce on the lawfulness of an individual's detention, precisely to protect against the executive branch having unfettered authority to detain persons without review.
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And for the first time, it held that Congress had violated the Suspension Clause, the constitutional provision protecting habeas corpus, the procedure under which prisoners are brought before a judge to determine if their detentions are lawful.
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In his speech, perhaps the heaviest criticism he levied against the Union was the oppression of its citizens by virtue of President Lincoln having earlier suspended habeas corpus, with specific regard to the Maryland legislature and citizenry.
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Both issues — whether the government can transfer Doe and whether Doe is being lawfully held as an enemy combatant — hinge on his right to habeas corpus, which requires the government to provide a legal basis for detention.
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Many sit wide-eyed when I bring up provisions they've never heard of, like "letters of marque" (letting private individuals plunder enemy ships in wartime) or that there is no habeas corpus right (it is only a privilege).
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He&aposs not a United States citizen, and this is specific to... PERINO: But he does have legal -- but he is going to be granted habeas corpus rights under the Constitution, because he&aposs a legal permanent resident.
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The organization's founder Steve Wise has yet to win a case on this argument, but the argument isn't totally without precedent: A court in Argentina granted a writ of habeas corpus for an orangutan named Sandra in 2014.
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First, the former detainee, Shawali Khan, is no longer in custody but has pursued his habeas corpus lawsuit because he said the allegations that he had connections to a terrorist group have left a cloud over his life.
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"We soon had a staff of more than 70 people and began to establish legal strategies, mainly habeas corpus writs," Mr. Zalaquett said in an interview posted on the website of the organization Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
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Obama, upheld the denial of habeas corpus for Ghaleb Al-Bihani, a Yemeni who claimed that before 9/11 he was merely a cook for a group in Afghanistan allied with the Taliban's fight against the Northern Alliance.
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The legal implications here are significant; should the judge agree with the habeas corpus order—which recognizes a person's right against unlawful detention—it could mean that Happy, and by consequence all elephants, are legal persons under state law.
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During the Civil War, one of President Lincoln's most controversial decisions was to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, which allowed for the indefinite detention of "disloyal persons" without any trial, in response to unrest in the border states.
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They often take place following lengthy pre-trial detention despite safeguards under international law that require both the right of habeas corpus, to know the reason for one's detention, and the right to a trial within a reasonable time.
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Cruz, defending Panetti's execution, didn't argue on substantive grounds but claimed that Panetti could not validly bring up the issue, as he did not raise mental incompetence–based arguments in his first habeas corpus petition seeking reprieve from execution.
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Under the convoluted law governing habeas corpus, which is the procedure by which federal courts review state-court criminal sentences, an inmate who loses a case before a federal district judge does not have an automatic right to appeal.
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"It doesn't matter, because you weren't born in this country," one of the immigration enforcement agents told the man, Daniel Ramírez Medina, according to a petition for habeas corpus filed on his behalf in Federal District Court in Seattle.
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He famously ignored habeas corpus, claiming the right to seize suspicious individuals in wartime, and he attempted to control flows of information: acts that placed him at odds with the principle of safeguarding informed criticism in a democratic society.
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Meanwhile, however, in a habeas corpus lawsuit, Mr. Shokuri's lawyers argued that the evidence that he was part of the Moroccan terrorist group was dubious, saying it traced back to "tortured confessions" from prisoners in Moroccan custody and unreliable jailhouse informants.
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On Friday November 16, Judge Tracey A. Bannister of the Orleans County Supreme Court in New York state issued an order of habeas corpus for Happy, who is being represented by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), an animal welfare group.
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As soon as she got the news that she'd won her federal habeas corpus, successfully appealing her sentence — it all came down to the state judge's decision to limit the rape trauma syndrome expert's testimony — Pulinario bolted outside, she said.
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"The collapse of habeas corpus as a remedy for even the most glaring of constitutional violations ranks among the greater wrongs of our legal era" was the opening sentence of a law review article Judge Reinhardt published three years ago.
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In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that prisoners at Guantánamo, where the court said the American government exercised de facto sovereignty, had a constitutional right to habeas corpus, which they had been denied under the Military Commissions Act.
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The prime example of this, of course, is the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Clinton-era federal law that vitiated habeas corpus review and made it measurably harder for justice to come to criminal defendants who deserve it.
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Chutkan ruled that the Defense Department should provide the ACLU with "temporary, immediate and unmonitored access" to the man to determine if he wants the organization to pursue a habeas corpus petition on his behalf and provide him with legal advice.
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There are external documents, however, indicating that older PEADs (through the 1970s) had provisions for martial law, unilateral suspension of habeas corpus by the president, confiscating Americans' passports, maintaining lists of "subversives" who could be rounded up in a crisis, etc.
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In his opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens agreed with Judge Gibbons, stating that American control of the base meant that the right of habeas corpus could be applied to the detainees in allowing them to challenge incarceration before a court.
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Transfer to Guantánamo has been a theoretical last resort; no new captive has arrived there since 2008, when the Supreme Court ruled that prisoners there have a constitutional right to file habeas corpus lawsuits challenging the basis for their detention.
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Because the case reached the court as a federal habeas corpus challenge to Mr. McWilliams's death sentence, he can win only if he can show that a state court's ruling against him was at odds with clearly established Supreme Court precedent.
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On Thursday, the judge overseeing Mr. Zubaydah's habeas corpus case, Emmet G. Sullivan, ordered the United States government to "immediately" preserve a complete, unredacted copy of the Senate report and deposit it with the court for secure storage by Feb. 10.
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Judge orders US not to transfer American accused of fighting for ISIS The American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the unnamed man, has filed a petition for habeas corpus, challenging the legality of his detention by the US government.
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Bannon must be familiar with the time Jackson declared martial law, jailed a judge and suspended habeas corpus while he was a military commander in New Orleans in 1814 and 1815, or when he illegally invaded Spanish Florida in 1818.
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In a hearing on Thursday, government lawyers argued that transferring Doe to another country with "a significant interest" in him would constitute the relief that Doe is seeking under habeas corpus, the law that allows prisoners to challenge an unlawful detention.
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Andrew Jackson disregarded a judicial order from the Supreme Court, Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus and Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court with his own appointees after it blocked many of his New Deal reforms.
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You can think it was right of Lincoln to claim the power to suspend habeas corpus in wartime, but not for Jackson to decline to use federal force to protect Indian rights (and then to use it to commit ethnic cleansing).
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Still, Wise's line of reasoning as he argues that "autonomous creatures that should be able to live autonomous lives" includes comparing the lot of animals to human slavery, seeking to extend them the habeas corpus rights employed to free people from unlawful imprisonment.
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In 2014 the criminal appeals court of Argentina said Sandra, an orangutan in the Buenos Aires zoo, was a non-human person—though the court has jurisdiction only over animal-cruelty cases, so this was a ruling on welfare, not habeas corpus.
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Several of the court's more conservative members said there was a poor fit between habeas corpus, which they said was meant to secure release from illegal detentions, and requests to bar the United States from sending immigrants back to their home countries.
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These two triumphs are why some Peruvians claim that Fujimori "saved" Peru, even though his government formed military death squads, suspended habeas corpus, crushed the free press, mishandled a cholera epidemic, sterilized thousands of indigenous women, blackmailed opponents and fomented widespread corruption.
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Guantánamo detainees have the right to file habeas corpus lawsuits challenging their detention in court, so sending an Islamic State suspect there would give a judge an opportunity to rule against the government — jeopardizing the legal basis for the broader war effort.
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After his habeas corpus plea was rejected, a man who yelled insults at Mr. da Silva in front of a school was hospitalized with brain trauma after a Workers' Party activist jostled him and his head was struck by a passing truck.
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The writ of habeas corpus denied on Wednesday included references to modern critiques of the bloodstain-analysis methods used in the case, new DNA evidence that could help Mr. Bryan and evidence pointing to another murder suspect, according to Ms. Freud, his lawyer.
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When a Texas court denied his third state habeas corpus petition and a Certificate of Appealability (COA) — the document he needs as a state prisoner to appeal the district court's denial of his petition — Buck appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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The trio of elephants, Beulah, Karen, and Minnie, never asked for legal representation, but the lawyer in charge of the NhRP suit, Steven Wise, argues that they're legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty, or in the parlance of lawyers, habeas corpus.
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Technically, that judge's ruling cannot be appealed, but like anyone being held by U.S. authorities, a jailed person facing extradition can file what is known as a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, saying their detention is unlawful and that they should be freed.
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Despite its effectiveness, Congress stopped employing inherent contempt after 1934 because the required trials on the floors of the House and Senate were time consuming, habeas corpus lawsuits challenging arrests and detention of alleged contemnors further slowed proceedings, and incarceration was perceived as unseemly.
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From Andrew Jackson's conflict with John Marshall over Cherokee removal to Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus to Franklin Roosevelt's attempts to force the court to accept the New Deal, there have always been tensions in the American republic between judicial authority and presidential power.
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U.S. District Court Judge Ann Donnelly ruled in favor of a habeas corpus petition filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of two Iraqi men who were detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday after Trump signed his order.
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Ms. Church and another lawyer, Heather Yountz, headed to the Customs and Border Protection office tucked into a corner of the airport, while other lawyers worked swiftly to file a habeas corpus petition in federal court, arguing that Mr. Dehghani was being detained unlawfully.
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The 72-year-old former president had filed a habeas corpus request to delay his prison sentence, but the supreme court ruled against him 6-5, a close verdict on an issue that has divided the country and raised tensions ahead of the elections.
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I'm guessing that at that point, he saw his opening — an opportunity to shackle the right of habeas corpus to a theory of originalism, as rigid as it is ahistorical, and to perhaps inspire some justices to take a fresh look back at Boumediene.
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Judge Lee, who later officiated at Mr. Fairfax's wedding and administered his oath of office as lieutenant governor, recalled one occasion when he granted a prisoner's handwritten habeas corpus petition because of an advanced legal analysis that Mr. Fairfax had performed as an intern.
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Bush, his majority opinion concluded that even prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on suspicion of terrorist activities could invoke the Constitution's promise of access to the courts—specifically, the Suspension Clause's guarantee of the writ of habeas corpus—to challenge the legality of their detention.
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When his American citizenship was confirmed, the Defense Department moved him to a Navy brig in the Southeastern US. Hamdi's father filed a habeas corpus petition on his behalf and the Supreme Court decided in 2004 that holding him in military custody violated his constitutional rights.
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Chutkan dismissed as "disingenuous at best" a Pentagon argument that the ACLU has no standing in the case because it has been unable to confer or meet with the detainee, and cannot prove that detainee wants the group to pursue a habeas corpus petition on his behalf.
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On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a habeas corpus petition asking a judge to order the Pentagon to let its lawyers visit the prisoner and to rule that the government's holding of him in detention without due process and unable to communicate is unconstitutional.
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A Georgia death-row inmate, Keith Tharpe, convicted of murdering his sister-in-law, had argued in the lower federal courts that a racially biased juror had tainted the jury deliberations so fundamentally as to require issuing a writ of habeas corpus and ordering a new trial.
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Shortly after Mr. Duterte declared martial law, the Department of National Defense released a memo of "guidance" pointing out that martial law "does not suspend the operation of the Constitution," affect the functioning of the legislature or the courts, or suspend the writ of habeas corpus.
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In addition, because the men are suspected of being members of the Islamic State, not Al Qaeda, taking them to Guantánamo — where detainees have a right to bring habeas corpus challenges to their detention — would create a legal headache that national security officials want to avoid.
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Certainly, many of those who lauded Justice Kennedy for his commitment to dignity and liberty when the litigants were juveniles facing the death penalty or Guantanamo detainees seeking habeas corpus found it difficult to understand his refusal to rule in favor of groups in other cases.
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American presidents have, for example, suspended the constitutional guarantee of habeas corpus (Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War), forced people of Japanese descent into internment camps (Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the second world war) and imposed warrantless surveillance on Americans (George W. Bush after the September 11th attacks).
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Britain, by contrast, canceled elections during World War II. It is true that Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus while waging war against the South, that antiwar activism was effectively criminalized in World War I, and that human and civil rights have been violated during other crises.
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Though the inherent contempt power has the advantages of allowing Congress to act without the help of any other branch of government and only limited judicial review through a habeas corpus proceeding, it is unlikely that the full Senate would stop its other work to try Flynn for contempt.
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Review is available in habeas corpus proceedings, but it is limited to determinations of whether the petitioner is an alien; whether his removal has been ordered in expedited removal proceedings; and whether he has been lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or has been granted refugee or asylum status.
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The prolonged battle also became a threat to democratic freedoms after Mr. Duterte, with congressional support, promptly imposed martial law (and suspended the writ of habeas corpus) across Mindanao, home to more than one-fifth of the country's total population and the vast majority of its Muslim minority.
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After the prison's image became toxic around the world and the Supreme Court ruled that federal civilian courts had jurisdiction to review habeas corpus lawsuits by detainees there, the Bush administration began trying to close it, reducing its population to 242 men by the time Mr. Bush left office.
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Nirider and Drizin are far better at explaining all of this, but let me try for the sake of enjoying some new legal info: In 1996, U.S. congress signed AEDPA (the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act), an anti-terrorist piece of legislation that changed habeas corpus procedure, into law.
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The Periodic Review Boards have held handful of hearings since the inauguration, though nobody new has been cleared for transfer; the military commissions trying the 9/11 defendants are proceeding with pre-trial hearings; and the men who were challenging their detention with habeas corpus cases continue to do so.
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In May 1998, lawyers from the Georgia Resource Center, a nonprofit organization that offers free legal representation to prisoners on death row, conducted interviews with each juror as part of a routine investigation to prepare for Tharpe's petition for habeas corpus, the process of determining whether his imprisonment was unlawful.
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Jonathan Hafetz, an A.C.L.U. lawyer, told the judge that the case was a "nightmare scenario" and urged her not to dismiss the case, saying that at a minimum she should ask the detainee whether he wanted to file a habeas corpus petition and, if so, wanted the A.C.L.U. to represent him.
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Still, Mr. Kadidal noted that after the administration's push to get most of the detainees on the transfer list out by the time it left office, his center now has only four clients left of the dozens it once had, in addition to coordinating habeas corpus litigation with other volunteer lawyers.
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American history suggests that a major crisis would give Trump both the pretext and the occasion to jettison this one kind of restraint he has mostly practiced so far: It was at times of massive insecurity that previous presidents have ignored the writ of habeas corpus, or ordered the internment of Japanese-Americans.
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Last Thursday, 11 of these "forever prisoners" filed a habeas corpus petition in the United States District Court in Washington, D.C. The men, all foreign-born Muslims, say their continued detention violates the Constitution's guarantee of due process and the 2001 law that gave presidents the power to send enemy combatants to Guantánamo.
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Under questioning by Mr. Young, Mr. Bellinger warned that because it was not clear that the 2001 war authorization covered the Islamic State, if the Trump administration were to bring an Islamic State suspect to the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, courts might order the prisoner freed in a habeas corpus lawsuit.
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The American Civil Liberties Union, which represents the unnamed individual, filed a motion with the court earlier this month asking that the man not be transferred from US government custody until the court has ruled on his petition for habeas corpus, which challenges the legality of his detention by the US government.
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The email from Judge Gorsuch, nominated by President Trump to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court caused by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, linked to articles about a less-noticed provision in the act that undercut the rights of Guantánamo Bay detainees by barring courts from hearing their habeas corpus lawsuits.
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Bush (53) Rights for Guantanamo Bay detainees In a major ruling of the post-9/11 era, Kennedy wrote it is unconstitutional to prevent detainees from going before a judge and challenging their detention -- known as the writ of habeas corpus -- even if they are designated as enemy combatants or held in a different country.
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But the A.C.L.U., noting that the government is responsible for keeping the man's identity secret and not letting lawyers visit him, has asked Judge Chutkan to order the government to ask the detainee whether he wants to file a habeas corpus lawsuit himself and, if so, whether he wants the A.C.L.U. to represent him.
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The details about Abu Zubaydah's treatment were revealed in a sworn, eight-page declaration [PDF at the end of this story] he provided to his attorney in 2009 that was filed under seal in US District Court in Washington, DC seven years ago in his habeas corpus case in which his attorneys have argued for his release.
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Captain Smith's lawyers are David Remes, who has represented many Guantánamo detainees in habeas corpus lawsuits, and Bruce Ackerman, a Yale Law School professor who published a column in The Atlantic last year arguing that the war against ISIS was illegal and that a serviceman ordered to fight in it would have standing to challenge it in court.
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"If this decision is left intact, it's going to be the first time in the history of this country in which noncitizens who enter the United States and are on U.S. soil, are not going to have the opportunity in habeas corpus to challenge their removal orders," said Lee Gelernt, the lead lawyer arguing the case for the ACLU.
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Unlike most habeas corpus lawsuits by detainees, which focused on whether there was sufficient factual evidence to establish that they had been members of the enemy force, the one brought by the plaintiff, Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi, did not challenge accusations that he had served in a Qaeda militia helping the Taliban fight the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.
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Hardly. It was there in Andrew Jackson's contempt for the Supreme Court; in Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus; in Franklin Roosevelt's effective blackmailing of the Supreme Court to back the New Deal; in the internment camps for Japanese-Americans; in the crimes of Richard Nixon; and in the claims of total executive power under Bush-Cheney.
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Bruno Bimbi, excorresponsal de Argentina en Brasil, argumenta que el Supremo Tribunal Federal debe aprobar la solicitud de liberación por habeas corpus del expresidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, un tema que ayer empezaron a discutir los jueces, después de la divulgación de evidencias recientes que señalan que el proceso contra el líder político habría estado viciado.
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It'll be increasingly difficult for U.S. judges to deny habeas corpus if the prospect of nonhuman animal personhood is normalized in society, and as scientific evidence continues to affirm the sophisticated cognitive and emotional capacities of a select group of nonhuman animals, including chimpanzees, elephants, cetaceans (dolphins and whales), and possibly some birds (the African grey parrot comes to mind).
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The three-judge panel held, in a unanimous opinion written by Judge A. Wallace Tashima, that the Constitution's suspension clause, which protects the right to habeas corpus — the ability to ask a court to determine if a detention is unlawful — applies to questions of whether the government followed the required protocols and applied the correct legal standard when evaluating a credible fear claim.
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Mr. Trump's move is "particularly ironic, given that the earliest formulation of what we recognize today as the concept of habeas corpus was expressed in the Codex Hammurabi, an ancient Iraqi monument about justice, set up in public so that all citizens could access their rights," said Kim Benzel, the curator in charge of the museum's Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art.
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