In Latin, habeas corpus means "you have the body." A writ of habeas corpus is typically an order which requires law enforcement authorities to produce a prisoner they are holding and to justify a ...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem raised eyebrows Tuesday by bungling the definition of habeas corpus, a core tenet of due process in US law, during a Senate hearing. The botch came during an ...

Administration officials have suggested suspending a legal principle that protects against unlawful detention, and struggled to accurately define it. By Amanda Holpuch Members of the Trump ...

Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller confirmed the Trump administration is “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus — a constitutional right that allows individuals to challenge ...

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, recently told reporters that the Trump administration is "actively evaluating" the possibility of suspending a constitutional protection that has ...

Habeas Corpus has protected our rights since before America’s founding. Today, the Trump administration has threatened to suspend this right to carry out its unlawful immigration agenda. The Trump ...

The Trump administration has said it's considering suspending habeas corpus. UC Berkeley law professor Amanda Tyler explains the concept, what rights it guarantees and whether a suspension is legal.

Donald Trump was asked at Wednesday’s White House roundtable that included far-right content creators ― and had Trump’s antifa bogeyman as the subject — if he’d “given any more thought to possibly ...

Testifying before a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was asked what the writ of habeas corpus is. Her response was that “habeas corpus is a constitutional ...

Senators grilled Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem Tuesday on her understanding of habeas corpus, and her answers prompted criticism that she was not fully acquainted with a right outlined in ...

The Michigan Court of Appeals has denied a writ of habeas corpus for seven chimpanzees currently at the DeYoung Family Zoo in Wallace, Mich., affirming a decision from the trial court that chimpanzees ...

The Trump administration floated an idea in recent weeks: suspending habeas corpus. Why? Because over and over again — including in the American Civil Liberties Union's challenge against President ...