There are a lot of laws these days. If the government wanted to imprison someone, they wouldn’t have to look very hard for something they’d done to break the law.
That’s why the idea of needing to suspend Habeus Corpus is absolutely bonkers.
See, Habeus Corpus is a really basic thing.
It doesn’t actually protect us much, because violating Habeus Corpus is really hard to do.
All Habeus Corpus does is prevent the government from locking us up for NO reason.
As long as they have SOME reason, they can lock us up without violating Habeus Corpus.
The only thing Habeus Corpus does is let you challenge that a government has locked you up without a reason, and all the government has to do is tell a court they have a reason and they can keep you locked up.
It’s quite literally ONLY designed to protect against explicitly arbitrary imprisonment.
The only way a government can fail to ensure Habeus Corpus is if they admit they don’t have a reason to have you locked up.
So…
If any government threatens to suspend Habeus Corpus it should ring alarm bells that they are already very far down the path to tyranny.
For the official spokesperson of the White House to casually let the American people know that they were thinking about suspending it is downright despicable.
It tells us that this administration doesn’t even respect BASIC liberty anymore.
Even in these mass deportation efforts, they really don’t need to violate Habeus Corpus. They can already give plenty of reasons for locking people up, and shipping them away.
I cannot stress this enough. If you want criminals deported, then Habeus Corpus has nothing to do with stopping them from being deported. Habeus Corpus literally only protects innocent people who the government admits they have no reason to lock up.
The fact our government says they might suspend it means that they are already trying to lock people up for no reason…
As a brief history side note, we literally revolted against King George for “wrongful imprisonment” because he’d suspended Habeus Corpus. That’s why we wrote the right to Habeus Corpus into Article One of our Constitution.
I believe that government should have a reason before they imprison someone. I hope that’s not controversial. But at least for now it’s still constitutional…
If you claim to support a republican form of government, and if you claim to support the constitution, then I hope you’ll stand with me against this threat against a basic constitutional right by our current federal administration.
As the heart of Trump Country, we must ensure our President upholds our constitution.
The states have the power to resist federal overreach, and to uphold our constitutional rights against tyranny.
If we cannot trust our current federal representatives, then I hope we can at least count on Wyomings' leadership and their sense of frontier independence to ensure that we as a state resist blatant disregard for the Constitution that the states ratified to form the federal government in the first place.
Sincerely,
Gabriel Green, Sheridan
