Suspending Habeas Corpus 101: Why It’s Bullshit

The Unthinkable Becomes Possible

You wake up to banging on your door at 3 AM. Before you can even process what's happening, armed agents burst in, zip-tie your wrists, and drag you from your home. No warrant. No explanation. No phone call. No lawyer. When your terrified family asks where they're taking you, they're told: "National security detention." And just like that, you disappear into a system with no obligation to ever bring you before a judge

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This nightmare scenario isn't some dystopian fiction. It's the American reality that could unfold if Donny McStinker and his fascism-fetishizing cronies succeed in their most dangerous power grab yet: suspending habeas corpus.

Let me be fucking clear: the right of habeas corpus—the legal principle requiring the government to justify why it's holding you in custody—is the cornerstone of personal liberty in a…