The Perverse Way Younger Abstention Is Used to Hurt People

The Bill of Rights explicitly gives you the right to a speedy trial. The government can't, you know, detain you indefinitely while you're pending trial and essentially just get their prison sentence just running out the clock. So being detained for years without trial would seemingly be the prototypical example of like what habeas corpus court should be doing. But instead they regularly cite younger abstention and say that state court proceeding is taking unconstitutionally long. It's obscene.