Habeas Corpus is Latin for "you shall have the body" and is used to bring a prisoner or other detainee before a court to determine if their imprisonment or detention is legal. The right is enshrined ...

Lee Kovarsky, law professor at the University of Texas and expert on habeas corpus, said it would be a “national historical disaster.” “The executive could just detain you, and there would be no ...

Administration officials have suggested suspending a legal principle that protects against unlawful detention, and struggled ...

Habeas corpus represents one of the oldest and most ... Both conservative and progressive legal experts have noted that once established, expanded detention authority without judicial review ...

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller suggested the Trump administration would suspend habeas corpus (or the right to a court hearing) if it disagrees with how courts are ruling on ...

Legal experts and Democrats expressed growing alarm over the weekend that Trump administration officials are openly discussing unilaterally suspending habeas corpus — a bedrock American legal ...

The Homeland Security secretary's word salad raised even more questions about the administration's assault on fundamental ...

Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-New Hampshire) asked Noem to simply define habeas corpus — which allows people to challenge the ...

Habeas corpus is a critical safeguard of liberty. In the words of Chief Justice John Marshall in the seminal 1803 case, ...

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 ...

Lee Kovarsky, law professor at the University of Texas and expert on habeas corpus, said it would be a “national historical disaster.” “The executive could just detain you, and there would ...

The right allows people to legally challenge their detentions by the government and is guaranteed in the Constitution.