Lincoln arguably needed it, and got it, as a requirement to win the Civil War. He suspended habeus corpus, arrested Confederate sympathizers on the spot, sized property from union and southern folks for basically any reason…
But won the war and freed the slaves; he broke the rules but was proven right.
I’m aware of the habeus corpus suspension - which I would argue was a bit of an extraordinary case as it was drawn into play initially because of the civil war, the capital was difficult to reinforce because of a rail obstruction and Congress could not safely be called into session. Even then, to my knowledge the act only applied to a small area from DC to like Pennsylvania or something. The act was rendered inoperable at the official end of the war and even before that I think all political prisoners taken during that time were released and even offered amnesty so long as they didn’t aid the confederacy, which, again given the extraordinary circumstances is a little more understandable (albeit admittedly still very contentious) than the current situation we have now.
What I’m not aware of is Lincoln’s criminal/civil immunity outside of this. Do you have any other information on this? It sounds interesting and something I have never heard of. I’d like to learn about it!
Lincoln arguably needed it, and got it, as a requirement to win the Civil War. He suspended habeus corpus, arrested Confederate sympathizers on the spot, sized property from union and southern folks for basically any reason…
But won the war and freed the slaves; he broke the rules but was proven right.
Little different than a shit stain facing 91 felonies because he’s an idiot and got his poor little feelings hurt.
I’m aware of the habeus corpus suspension - which I would argue was a bit of an extraordinary case as it was drawn into play initially because of the civil war, the capital was difficult to reinforce because of a rail obstruction and Congress could not safely be called into session. Even then, to my knowledge the act only applied to a small area from DC to like Pennsylvania or something. The act was rendered inoperable at the official end of the war and even before that I think all political prisoners taken during that time were released and even offered amnesty so long as they didn’t aid the confederacy, which, again given the extraordinary circumstances is a little more understandable (albeit admittedly still very contentious) than the current situation we have now.
What I’m not aware of is Lincoln’s criminal/civil immunity outside of this. Do you have any other information on this? It sounds interesting and something I have never heard of. I’d like to learn about it!
And also Andrew Jackson who defied the Supreme Court and committed crimes anyway. The idea that this is new is a farce.