Assuming Quote by Stephen Colbert

“In Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court held that the United States’ exercise of authority over Guantánamo gave the detainees a constitutional right to…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas…

— Noah Feldman

In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or to some…

— Nat Hentoff

“We must pose the familiar question about how far our civil liberties have been eroded by the national security state… Somehow it is always…

— Niall Ferguson

Anyway, the [Barack] Obama administration took four years to say they weren't gonna do anything on George W. Bush. There were all kinds of…

— Rush Limbaugh

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

— Keith Olbermann

In England and, later, the United Kingdom, Habeas Corpus is a right of great antiquity: Anyone who is arrested must be brought before a…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

“When we have a government that tortures people,” continued Kennedy, “that suspends our Bill of Rights, suspends habeas corpus, that says the Bill of…

— Brad Olsen

You know, there were all kinds of calls when George W. Bush left office in 2009 for the left to investigate him. [Barack] Obama…

— Rush Limbaugh

Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive…

— Mark Thomas

“Remember that there was great controversy that George Bush asserted the power simply to detain American citizens without due process or simply to eavesdrop…

— Jeremy Scahill

What I do know, as a former federal prosecutor, is, it does appear that there were crimes committed during the Obama administration.

— John Ratcliffe