The power of habeas corpus in America: from the King's Prerogative to the War on Terror

Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
Introduction......Page 15
Part I A History of Power Struggles......Page 23
The Emergence of English Law......Page 25
Writs, Jurisdiction, and Liberation......Page 28
Habeas Corpus Cum Causa......Page 32
Habeas Corpus Ad Subjiciendum......Page 36
2 Parliament and the King......Page 42
Five Knights and Star Chambers......Page 43
Habeas and Parliamentary Power......Page 46
The Habeas Corpus Act of 1679......Page 49
Parliaments Suspension and Arrests......Page 51
The Empires Legal Black Hole......Page 54
American Common Law......Page 58
Colonial Habeas Corpus......Page 63
Writ and Revolution......Page 67
Centralization and the Suspension Clause......Page 72
The Power to Issue the Writ......Page 76
The Rise of American Military Law......Page 81
A Limited Remedy......Page 90
5 Fugitive Slaves and Liberty Laws......Page 92
Enslavement and Liberation......Page 93
Habeas Corpus and States’ Rights......Page 98
6 Suspension and Civil War......Page 105
The President Suspends Habeas Corpus......Page 106
Controversy Over Suspension Power......Page 111
Congress Defers to the Executive......Page 112
Lambdin Milligan and the Persistence of Military Law......Page 120
The Habeas Corpus Act of 1867: Expansion and Retrenchment......Page 125
The Pivotal Case of Young Edward Tarble......Page 127
The End of Eras......Page 132
8 Lynch Mob Justice......Page 134
Chinese Restriction and the Great Writ......Page 137
Progressivism and Punishment......Page 141
Imperialism and Law......Page 145
Jurisdiction and Due Process......Page 146
Certiorari and Appeal......Page 148
The Meaning of Custody......Page 149
Jurisdiction, Lynch Mobs, and De Novo Review......Page 150
Wilsons War and Civil Law......Page 157
The Nazi Saboteurs and Military Commissions......Page 159
Martial Law in Hawaii......Page 165
Judicial Deference to American Concentration Camps......Page 169
10 Federal Activism and Retreat......Page 174
The Warren Years: Habeas and the Fourteenth Amendment......Page 179
The Burger Court: Seeking Out a Balance......Page 183
The Rehnquist Court and Conservative Reform......Page 187
Clintons Betrayal: the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act......Page 190
A Muzzled Writ and a Bloated Prison System......Page 194
Part II Executive Detention in Post-9/11 America......Page 197
11 Mass Roundups and Ad Hoc Secret Detentions......Page 199
U.S. Citizens and Post-9/11 Detention Policy......Page 205
The American Taliban......Page 206
Yaser Esam Hamdi......Page 209
Jose Padilla......Page 211
A Wartime Presidency and the Rights of the Custodian......Page 212
12 Enemy Aliens and Bush\'s Prerogative......Page 213
Military Tribunals......Page 214
Geneva Conventions and Other Quaint Human Rights Concerns......Page 217
Guantánamo Bay: the Worst of the Worst......Page 220
Interrogation in the Legal Black Hole......Page 226
Abu Ghraib and the U.S. Torture State......Page 230
13 The Dance of the Court and the Executive......Page 233
The Imperial Executive Strikes Back......Page 238
The Detainee Treatment Act......Page 240
Habeas Corpus Shines Light on the Black Hole......Page 241
Hamdan, the Military Commissions Act, and Boumediene V. Bush......Page 242
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld......Page 243
The Military Commissions Act of 2006......Page 246
The Continuing Struggle......Page 248
After the MCA......Page 250
Boumediene v. Bush......Page 253
14 Obama\'s Legal Black Hole......Page 258
Candidate Obama, Concerned Civil Libertarian......Page 259
President Obama, Custodian......Page 263
Wavering on Guantánamo, Military Commissions, and Indefinite Detention......Page 265
Worse than Guantánamo......Page 271
“Ordinary Renditioning,” Show Trials, Human Rights Abuses......Page 273
Habeas Corpus Betrayed Again......Page 278
Normalizing Unlimited Executive Power......Page 281
Part III Custody and Liberty......Page 285
15 The Great Writ\'s Paradox of Power and Liberty......Page 287
16 A Remedy in Search of a Principle......Page 297
17 The Modern Detention State and the Future of the Writ......Page 307
Unchecked Brutality......Page 310
The Narrow Boundaries of Discussion......Page 313
Habeas and Detention Reform: Substantive Rights......Page 315
Moral Individualism and Procedural Rights......Page 317
Jurisdictional Radicalism and Habeas Corpus Federalism......Page 321
The Power of the Writ......Page 325
Appendix A Analysis of Hirabayashi v. United States......Page 329
Appendix B Analysis of Korematsu v. United States......Page 334
Appendix C Analysis of Ex parte Endo......Page 341
Appendix D Analysis of Rumsfeld v. Padilla......Page 345
Appendix E Analysis of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld......Page 350
Appendix F Analysis of Rasul v. Bush......Page 363
Appendix G Analysis of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld......Page 369
Appendix H Analysis of Boumediene v. Bush......Page 389
Selected Cases......Page 405
Historical Term Chart......Page 407
Selected Bibliography......Page 413
Index......Page 419