This right also extends to noncitizens held within the United States, and in the case of those migrants who have been ...

Habeas corpus, known as the “Great Writ,” is a centuries-old legal instrument. The phrase is Latin for “you have the body.” ...

Abraham Lincoln became the first US president to suspend habeas corpus in 1861, during the American Civil War. That led to a ...

Does Donald Trump have the power to suspend a foundational legal right to challenge a person’s arrest and detention?

"I say, hey, on the first, suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Suspend it. Do what Lincoln did. And Lincoln had a harder ...

During a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing held on June 5, 2025, Senator Maggie Hassan ...

Four months into President Donald Trump's second term, he has aggressively pursued efforts to strip entire communities of ...

President Donald Trump is pursuing a path that is actively destabilizing the guardrails of our Constitution. Unless he ...

The writ of habeas corpus is a safeguard against unlawful detention. It requires the government to justify, under the law, ...

Over the weekend, protests and riots targeting ICE and law enforcement in Los Angeles made national news as rioters carrying ...

Instead of respecting court orders, the Trump administration is now eyeing a workaround: Cutting out the courts by suspending habeas corpus. The administration has its eye on habeas corpus because ...