One incident that particularly rankled was Jackson’s arrest of a federal district judge, Dominick Augustine Hall, for issuing a writ of habeas corpus freeing a legislator named Louis Louailler, who had been jailed for writing a newspaper article that criticized the city’s military authority. His imprisonment occurred prior to the lifting of martial law. Like everyone else in New Orleans, Judge Hall felt that martial law must end and he chose the manner of a writ of habeas corpus to express that belief. When the writ was handed to him, Jackson responded with an order of his own. “Having reed
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