ChipsAloy80 t1_iscq4f8 wrote on October 14, 2022 at 11:24 PM Reply to comment by amanamongbotss 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 Ex parte Merryman was not a Supreme Court case and the only source for Taney Arrest Warrant is a discredited Ward Layman post war account. Permalink Parent 9
ChipsAloy80 t1_iscq4f8 wrote
Reply to comment by amanamongbotss 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
Ex parte Merryman was not a Supreme Court case and the only source for Taney Arrest Warrant is a discredited Ward Layman post war account.