Update on Senate Habeas Corpus Vote

Senators Specter and Leahy have introduced the amendment to the Defense Authorization bill to restore the right to habeas corpus as S.A. 2022. It appears that Senate is likely to vote on this amendment this week, perhaps as early as Tuesday.

Please call the offices of Senator Lautenberg (202-224-3224) and Senator Menendez (202-224-4744) and make the following points:

1. Thank you for supporting S. 185, the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act!
2. I am glad that you share my concern for protecting the constitutional right to challenge the fact and conditions of one’s detention.
3. Please vote in favor of S.A. 2022, the bipartisan amendment to S. 1547 (the Department of Defense Authorization bill) introduced by Senators Arlen Specter and Patrick Leahy to restore habeas corpus.