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About Time: The Timeliness Of Habeas Corpus And An Exceptional Circumstance In Boumediene V. Bush, Benjamin Lozano
About Time: The Timeliness Of Habeas Corpus And An Exceptional Circumstance In Boumediene V. Bush, Benjamin Lozano
Benjamin J Lozano
In wartime states of emergency, the Supreme Court has historically held that a constitutional entitlement to habeas review is neither predicated on the length of detention nor the timeliness of due process, but rather is objective, concrete, and atemporal. The question of wartime habeas corpus has therefore always been an ontological question, exclusively determined by the corresponding categories of subject and space. However, this paper argues that a surreptitious shift in methodology buried inside the ostensible precedent of Boumediene v. Bush should not be overlooked, for the ruling signals the inaugural moment whereby the length and indefinite duration (i.e. the …