Ex Parte Merryman is the applicable habeas case and Chief Judge Taney  
clearly and convincingly demonstrates Lincoln had no Consitutional right to  suspend 
habeas corpus, since that is the perview of the Congress, not the  executive. 
 There is no serious debate about that fact and the case remains  the law of 
the land to this day.
 
Ex parte Milligan was a post war case.
 
JD South
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