As my co-blogger Ilya Somin notes below, White House aide Stephen Miller commented today that the Trump Administration is "actively looking at" whether it would be possible to suspend the writ of ...

Two Latin words – 'habeas corpus' – protect any person, whether citizen or not, from being illegally confined. deepblue4you, iStock / Getty Images Plus In some parts of the world, a person may be ...

If invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act and claiming that illegal immigration amounts to an invasion of the United States were not enough, the White House has now floated the idea of suspending the ...

In recent months, the radicalism of the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda has come into focus, leaving many to wonder just how much further the Republican White House is prepared to go.

The writ of habeas corpus, a right deeply rooted in English common law and recognized by the U.S. Constitution, allows people nabbed by the government to challenge their detention in court. That ...

President Donald Trump's administration's suggestion of suspending habeas corpus rights has been criticized by legal experts, with a Boston professor telling Newsweek that classifying the immigration ...

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 ...

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said the administration is considering "suspending habeas corpus," QUESTION: President Trump has talked about suspending habeas corpus to take care of ...

The White House driveway is an unlikely venue for announcing plans to upend the Constitution. But, strolling up to the bank of microphones on a sunny spring afternoon, the White House deputy chief of ...

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 ...

In some parts of the world, a person may be secreted away or imprisoned by the government without any advanced notification of wrongdoing or chance to make a defense. This has not been lawful in the ...

President Donald Trump's administration's suggestion of suspending habeas corpus rights has been criticized by legal experts, with a Boston professor telling Newsweek that classifying the immigration ...