{"id":122,"date":"2008-06-13T23:59:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T03:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kim.thewei.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:15:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:15:29","slug":"unlawful-restraint-still-outlawed-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/unlawful-restraint-still-outlawed-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlawful restraint still outlawed in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the majority ruling on the right of Guantamo prisoners to have their day in court to challenge the legality of their arrest, Kennedy writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Framers viewed freedom from unlawful restraint as a fundamental precept of liberty, and they understood the writ of habeas corpus as a vital instrument to secure that freedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love that statement. To be free, a person cannot be subject to unrightful restraint. <\/p>\n<p>Glen Greenwald expands on the supreme court decision at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2008\/06\/12\/boumediene\/\">Salon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the majority ruling on the right of Guantamo prisoners to have their day in court to challenge the legality of their arrest, Kennedy writes: The Framers viewed freedom from unlawful restraint as a fundamental precept of liberty, and they understood the writ of habeas corpus as a vital instrument to secure that freedom. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/unlawful-restraint-still-outlawed-in-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unlawful restraint still outlawed in America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}