Word: habeus
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...while habeus corpus rights and the state's secrets privilege are somewhat abstract, everyone understands the power of the photographs from Abu Ghraib released in 2004. The American Civil Liberties Union sued in federal court under the Freedom of Information Act for hundreds of similar photographs. Strictly on legal grounds, it was an easy call for Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department to decide three weeks ago that - having fought the release of the photos in federal court, and lost, three times - that further appeals would be fruitless. So the Justice Department urged the Pentagon to strike a deal...
...Police detained Lepore and Paladino and confiscated their passports so they could not leave the country. But after they had been cooped for two months in a Rio hotel, a judge earlier this month issued a habeus corpus order to return their confiscated passports. Before they could get on a plane home, however, police rushed to formally charge them - even before a formal inquiry report was completed. The best reason they could find was, in Craesmeyer?s words, that the pilots "didn't see that the transponder wasn't working and didn't take any action...
...lawful permanent residents convicted of minor offenses. In doing so, the government would utilize a retroactive “expedited removal” procedure and, most egregiously, prevent any judicial scrutiny by exempting such cases from habeas corpus review—note that no one has been deprived of habeus corpus by Congress since the Civil...