The indifferent ignorance of it all is something to behold.
I mean, it’s a concept central to her job, and it has been in the news. Maybe, I dunno, Google it?
Worse than performing like a mediocre undergraduate who failed to do the reading, or even listening in class, is her assumption of the authoritarian powers of the president.
Further, this is a woman who went to a torture prison in El Salvador for a photo op (see the headline photo for this post, source: UPI). A torture prison where people were sent without due process of law, I would underscore.
The Trump administration is populated with ignorant, unserious, and, indeed, evil people.
It is upsetting and utterly ridiculous. And yet, here we are.
See PBS: What is habeas corpus, and what has the Trump administration said about suspending it?
The Latin term means, literally, “you have the body.” Federal courts use a writ of habeas corpus to bring a prisoner before a neutral judge to determine if imprisonment is legal.
Habeas corpus was included in the Constitution as an import from English common law. Parliament enacted the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679, which was meant to ensure that the king released prisoners when the law did not justify confining them.
So, you know, it’s one of those new-fangled rights.
These people are authoritarians. Full stop.
