Trump admin's threat to suspend core U.S. legal right sparks outcry, alarm

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : "There are ways to mitigate it and there's some very strong ways," Trump said.
40% : " President Trump has been personally involved in discussions with the administration about potentially suspending habeas corpus, CNN reported on Saturday.
31% : " Prof. Stephen Gillers, an expert on legal ethics at New York University Law School, said that Trump and Miller are trying to discredit judges and maximize the power of the presidency.
10% : Trump and Miller have assailed those rulings.
1% : Trump was most likely referring to Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, who suspended habeas corpus during and after the Civil War; Theodore Roosevelt, who suspended it in two provinces in the Philippines during a 1905 rebellion there; and Franklin Delano Roosevelt who suspended it in Hawaii after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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