Habeus Corpus?
Literally means, “[we command that] you have the body,” those crazy latin’s say things funny all the time. [Wikipedia definition | LectLaw definition] It’s one of those protections built in to our founding law. Specifically it is intended to provide a legal remedy against unlawful jailing. If someone is jailed without due process, or if due process was flawed in some technical way, then the write of habeus corpus provides remedy by compelling the prison official to bring the prisoner before a court of law to re-evaluate their prison sentence and determine it’s validity. If the state cannot demonstrate that they have legal grounds to imprison, and that they have followed due process, then the prisoner must be released.
Apparently Bush repealed it as part of the whole Patriot Act wave of changes in an effort to fight “terrorism.”
Normally I try to avoid politics, but this seems too important not to say something…
http://restore-habeas.org/whip/total.php
Look who’s voting against giving us back a legal protection.
Special thanks to the Digg RSS feed for bringing this to my attention.
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