<p>Lincoln didn’t eliminate the writ, he temporarily suspended it, under precisely those conditions spelled out in the US Constitution in Article 1, Sec. 9: “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeus Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”</p>
<p>The legislation Barack referred to did something altogether different - it purported to eliminate the privilege of the writ altogether for prisoners at Gitmo. Barack criticized that legislation in 2006 on similar grounds to those used by the Supreme Court in declaring that legislation unconstitutional in 2008.</p>
<p>And yes, his title at the University of Chicago Law school was Senior Lecturer. But Chicago deems its senior lecturers to be professors, and it offered him tenure.</p>