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Democrats bear responsibility for restoring habeas corpus

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2007 06:58 AM

    unconstitutional?

    darmsTX,

    The suspension of habeas corpus is pretty clearly unconstitutional, but it has to be challenged through the court system, up through the Supreme Court. That takes time and it takes a case. It's much harder to do without a specific case (or cases), and legal access to the people in Gitmo has been intentionally limited. (And according to reports, even those limited client-lawyer relations have been intentionally sabotaged. It's damn near impossible to work with clients who have been led to believe that you're not on their side.)

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