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History of Habeas Corpus
This case eventually helped to lead to the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act of 1863. It authorized the president to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in response to the U.S. Civil War. However, when the Civil War ended, the provisions of the aforementioned Act were rendered inoperative. Then, in 1867, the Habeas Corpus Act of 1867 significantly expanded the jurisdiction of federal courts to issue writs of habeas corpus. Previously, prisoners could only petition for a writ of habeas corpus in state courts. Then, in 1871, he Civil Rights Act of 1871 authorized the suspension of habeas corpus in order to break the Klu Klux Klan. Its provisions were omitted from the Revised Statutes of the United States.