Efficient-Library792 t1_iu2xqlx wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:55 AM

Reply to comment by RichardTitball in TIL: During the US Civil War, a father issued a writ of habeus corpus to get his underaged Son out of the US Army, when the writ was delivered to the camp, the provost had both the lawyer who had delivered the writ, and the Judge who had issued the writ arrested and imprisoned. by hoosyourdaddyo

It also ruled against him. He just ignored it. Lawyers and historians have pointed out countless times that the courts only true power is it's credibility