place even after the supreme court, via the chief justice, or at least the supreme court justice raja tani reggie to decision saying this with unconstitutional. only congress has the ability to suspend--. that is still the view of almost all constitutional scholars. the supreme court after the wall also repudiated the world that without a suspension by congress that martial law could be applied within the united states, or no war was going on. lincoln did, that he did it extensively. he imprisoned between 15 and 40,000 people, there is a lot of debate of how many, over the course of the war without trial and without the opportunity to appear in court. this is the largest suppression of free expression in american history by a huge margin! last but not least, much more uplifting lincoln also broke the constitution as he understood it when he issued the emancipation proclamation. formally freeing enslaved people in areas that were under confederate control. lincoln himself when the war began reiterated his commitment to the idea that slavery was constitutionally protected. i think we will talk a li