Public Citizen is running a grassroots email campaign in order to restore habeas corpus. I can't think of too many more important reforms about we, the people, than this! Here is their message:
You know the saying, "If at first you don't succeed..."?
We have another opportunity to restore the right to habeas corpus now. The Senate is debating the defense authorization bill again this week, and Senators Leahy and Dodd have re-introduced the bill to restore habeas corpus as an amendment. Meanwhile, many continue to languish without due process to review the lawfulness of their detainment, and still more of us remain vulnerable.
Your help is urgently needed again. Please call your senators now.
As the Founders understood, in denying someone else's freedom, we ultimately surrender our own.
Thank you for all you've done and for not backing down. Take a few moments today to restore habeas corpus!
Sincerely,
Daniel De Bonis, Online Organizer, Public Citizen's Congress Watch Division action@citizen.org
i am a high school student working on some question on my history class, and it deals with the habeas corpus today...
ReplyDeleteso far i had read many other blogs and websites that state how our president and our senators are "restoring" the habeas corpus, does this also mean that the habeas corpus has been taken out, in other words denied?
This was an amendment to the annual Defense Authorization bill. It was voted down. See opencongress.org for the details at http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/1890
ReplyDeleteHowever, habeas corpus may still be in legislation elsewhere today; see http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s185/show
David