Supreme Court slapped him down. You know what Lincoln did? He went ahead anyway. He eventually did get a bill passed in 1863. It was called the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. Then, Following the Civil War, President U.S. Grant got a bill passed to suspend the writ of habeas corpus because of the Democrat organization known as the Ku Klux Klan. It was known as the enforcement acts of 1871. One of them, the Civil Rights act of 71, actually allowed the president to suspend habeas corpus if there were conspiracies … (1:15:55–1:16:08)
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Asserts that President U.S. Grant suspended habeas corpus due to the Ku Klux Klan.
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