Americans, Beware: This Battle Is Coming to Your Doorstep
If you think the fight over habeas corpus is some distant legal argument happening in Washington, you’re wrong. It’s been creeping forward for years, and now it’s brushing right up against ordinary people’s lives. It’s a pattern that started in 2020 and has kept resurfacing, getting louder each time.
Back in 2020, during Trump’s first term, internal memos showed that some of his advisers were floating the idea of suspending habeas corpus to speed up immigration detentions and deportations. It wasn’t public policy, but it was being talked about behind closed doors. The idea was extreme, and…
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