Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant suspended '' habeas corpus '' during the Civil War and Reconstruction for some places or types of cases . During World War II , President Franklin D. Roosevelt suspended habeas corpus . Following the September 11 attacks , President George W. Bush attempted to place Guantanamo Bay detainees outside of the jurisdiction of '' habeas corpus '' , but the Supreme Court of the United States overturned this action in '' Boumediene v. Bush ''
September 11 attacks
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