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...Unfortunately a core principle of the English legal system is habeas corpus — which, legal experts say, is something about having a body....
...Dicey, is that there is no limit to what “the Queen in Parliament” can do: make wars, abrogate individual rights, suspend habeas corpus, and so on....
...Somehow it’s always a choice between hundreds of corpses and habeas corpus. The police state has a natural ally in the nanny state, born in 1945 to replace warfare with welfare....
...The court heard two consolidated cases on Wednesday, Boumediene v Bush and Al Odah v United States, both brought by Guantánamo detainees who claim they have the right to dispute their imprisonment using...
...“We based it on civil law and habeas corpus,” he says, “but we weren’t saying let them out. It was much milder than that.”...
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