Trump has mass produced ignorance at the Cabinet level. The Homeland Security secretary doesn’t know about habeas corpus. The Health and Human Services secretary doesn’t know why vaccines are important. The Defense secretary doesn’t practice operational security. This gang don’t even know the basics.

Habeas corpus, and the Constitution broadly, protects unpopular people for a reason—and it protects them from the government. The president certainly has a prerogative to uphold the law. But that doesn't mean much if he and his administration engage in lawlessness to do so.