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Protecting terrorists with legislation.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
It occurred to me while reading "Restoring Rights" in the November 12 issue that TNA and the far left make strange bedfellows. TNA obviously supports this new piece of legislation, yet unless I am misreading the bill draft, it appears to protect alien combatants as well as treasonous U.S. citizens. American citizens are entitled to due process, but foreign combatants ought to come under the rules of engagement and military law--as the situation now stands prior to any such legislation passing.
Also the president correctly suspended the right of habeas corpus for the war captives: "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." If the attack on the World Trade Center and subsequent terrorist attempts are not invasions, then I don't know what they could be called. ...
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...petitioner is not grounds for federal habeas corpus relief. Although Chief Justice Rehnquist...Note examines the history of federal habeas corpus review and argues that the Court logically...with its current position on federal habeas corpus: habeas relief is to be granted only...
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- Magazine article from: William and Mary Law Review Orye, Benjamin R., III October 1, 2002 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Finley, Timothy T. January 1, 1994 700+ words
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- KILLING HABEAS CORPUS.
- Magazine article from: The New Yorker Toobin, Jeffrey December 4, 2006 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: America Farrell, Brian R. September 24, 2007 700+ words
...constitutional right to the remedy of habeas corpus. The remedy, one of the most fundamental...or her detention or imprisonment. A habeas corpus proceeding does not determine guilt...Since its origin in medieval England, habeas corpus has served as an important means of...
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Kolakowski, John L. March 22, 1997 700+ words
...not dismiss a first federal habeas corpus petition for ad hoc equitable...the framework of the Federal Habeas Corpus Rules.(2) Lonchar involved...availability of first federal habeas corpus petitions by narrowing the...
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- Magazine article from: Michigan Law Review Khandelwal, Sharad Sushil November 1, 1997 700+ words
...Court expanded the system of federal habeas corpus to provide such supervision.(7) Federal habeas corpus for state convicts works in the following...in federal district court a writ of habeas corpus that collaterally attacks the constitutional...
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