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

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, incorrectly defined habeas corpus. What does habeas corpus do? Has it ever been ...

The future of habeas corpus has been pushed into the spotlight as President Donald Trump has been involved in discussions ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the constitutional provision that allows people to legally challenge their ...

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

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

The potential suspension of habeas corpus raises serious constitutional concerns, affecting judicial oversight and individual ...

Habeas Corpus is Latin for "you shall have the body" and is used to bring a prisoner or other detainee before a court to ...

During a budget hearing at the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, Democratic New Hampshire Senator Margaret Hassan asked ...

That term was used deliberately, though any effort to suspend habeas corpus would spark legal challenges questioning whether the country was in fact facing an invasion, let alone one that ...

Cornell Law says only Congress can suspend the writ of habeas corpus, either by its own legislation or through expressed ...

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to ...