"Defying the chief justice of the United States, he suspended the writ of habeas corpus by presidential decree. He also declared martial law, authorized the trial of civilians by military courts...all on the grounds that "I may in an emergency do things on military grounds which cannot be done constitutionally by Congress.""
"Defying the chief justice of the United States, he suspended the writ of habeas corpus by presidential decree. He also declared martial law, authorized the trial of civilians by military courts...all on the grounds that "I may in an emergency do things on military grounds which cannot be done constitutionally by Congress.""
But muh Lincoln was a socialist!