Is NHQ taking the day off today?

[Major Lord]

^^Abraham Lincoln is probably the closest thing we have to an American secular saint.  Some historians and admirers don't want to hear anything bad that he did.  As to the suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War, as a lawyer, I cringe.  And up here in the Northern Plains, at about the same time he was issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, he was hanging over 30 Dakota Indians for participating in the Sioux Uprising.  Some settlers were killed by bands of Dakotas.  But the Dakotas will tell you they were protecting their land and families.  It was group punishment and innocent men who likely did not participate were executed.  And it was during a war, Lakota/Dakota/Nakota v. USA. 

I too admire Lincoln and think he did save the Union and set the stage for the eventual political and civil emancipation of Blacks and other minorities (and really, all of us Americans).  And I also think he was one of if not our greatest American President.  But he was a complicated man in a complicated time who made controversial decisions--just like any politician in his shoes.  History has come down on the side that he did far more good than bad.  But the bad cannot be ignored either.

And what any of this has to do with CAP, I haven't a clue. 

As a lawyer you cringe over suspension of Habeas Corpus?

Article 1, Section 7, Constitution of the United States:

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be
suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion
the public Safety may require it.

Major Lord