Habeas corpus doesn’t prevent illegal imprisonment, it’s only a procedure to (eventually) free people after the fact. That procedure is still in place, it just takes a lot of time. Habeas corpus was used successfully to free Rümeysa Öztürk (detained for writing an op-ed). But many others are still detained because the process is slow and the DOJ is deliberately obstructing everything.
But they’re imprisoning people in a foreign country where we have no jurisdiction, right? How is it possible to eventually have a court hearing for those people?
You’re right of course. Habeas corpus alone isn’t enough to stop all of this, particularly against an administration that is blatantly undermining the courts.
The whole thing makes me sick to my stomach. The lack of mass mobilization to the streets while they’re essentially black bagging human beings and making them disappear is insane. The protests in my metro have been pitiful.
Habeas corpus doesn’t prevent illegal imprisonment, it’s only a procedure to (eventually) free people after the fact. That procedure is still in place, it just takes a lot of time. Habeas corpus was used successfully to free Rümeysa Öztürk (detained for writing an op-ed). But many others are still detained because the process is slow and the DOJ is deliberately obstructing everything.
But they’re imprisoning people in a foreign country where we have no jurisdiction, right? How is it possible to eventually have a court hearing for those people?
You’re right of course. Habeas corpus alone isn’t enough to stop all of this, particularly against an administration that is blatantly undermining the courts.
The whole thing makes me sick to my stomach. The lack of mass mobilization to the streets while they’re essentially black bagging human beings and making them disappear is insane. The protests in my metro have been pitiful.