When rulers decide that habeas corpus is dispensable, they confess that law itself is dispensable; if custody can rest on fiat, so can banishment. The shield that once protected every citizen becomes a sword that cuts according to whim, first against the despised, then against whoever inherits their place. History shows the pattern: emergency powers justify detention, detention normalizes dispossession, dispossession breeds exile, exile invites further cruelties; the cycle persists until force meets a stronger force. Every step taken outside constitutional restraint removes one more stone from a shared house; demolish enough stones and no inhabitant, reformer or tyrant, enjoys lasting shelter. Hypocrisy offers no immunity, it merely postpones reckoning; those who wield unbounded power today must prepare to kneel before it tomorrow.
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Ron Filipkowski
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Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.
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