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John Conyers: I just keep going through my mind, and this is getting to be a night and day job, because I have a Member I respect so…

On the recordSeptember 29, 2006
I just keep going through my mind, and this is getting to be a night and day job, because I have a Member I respect so much in judiciary, Mr. Lungren, who keeps trying to tell us that there are two writs of habeas corpus. A wonderful idea, if it were only true. The statutory writ of habeas corpus, I say to my colleague from California, is to implement the great writ in the Constitution. So to be telling us repeatedly, repeatedly, and I have got the cases, I have been waiting for this great moment in American judiciary history, that there are two writs and that you have got to know which one you are talking about is absolutely incorrect.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

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Discussing the concept of habeas corpus during a debate.

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