...Watkins, 3 Peters, 201. Whether the power to grant the writ is confined to cases where prisoners " are in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States, or are committed for trial before some court of the same, or are necessary to be brought into court to...

...make further provision, by law, for securing the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, to persons in custody, under, or by color of, the authority of the United States." The object of this proposition was apparent; and it drew out an animated and protracted debate. The...

...make further provision, by law, for securing the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, to persons in custody, under, or by color of; the authority of the United States." The object of this proposition was apparent ; and it drew out an animated and protracted debate. The...

...sitting alone, had no power to punish any contempt, however gross or personal. imprisonment occurring under or by color of the authority of the United States, or for acts done, or omitted to be done, in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of a judicial...

...jurors, wituesses, or parties in any cause pending in court, exposes the party imprisonment occurring under or by color of the authority of the United States, or for acts done, or omitted to be done, in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of a judicial...

...to make further provision by law for securing the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus to persons in custody, under or by color of the authority of the United States." " Mr. Broom said, " This privilege of the writ of habeas corpus has been deemed so important that by...

...to inquire into the cause of commitment, did not extend to prisoners in jail, unless where they were in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States. Afterward, and when, by reason of the State legislation of South Carolina, officers of the United States,...

...the northern district of New York. In all these cases it was sufficient that applicants Power of were "in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States." But, as we have seen, according to the interpretation given to the constitution in Marbury v. Madison...

...Prorided, That writs of habeas corpus shall in no case extend to prisoners in jail, unless where they are in custody, under or by color of the authority of the United States, (d) or are committed for trial before some court of the same, or are necessary to be brought intn court...

...lies. Under the act of 1789, power was given to issue writs of habeas corpus for the relief of persons in custody " under or by color of the authority of the United States." McCardle was in prison exactly under such authority. Here, then, is a case coming within the very terms...