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

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

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

Noem did incorrectly say habeas corpus is "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from ...

UC Berkeley law professor Amanda Tyler says today’s fight over government power to detain people without due process could ...

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 ...

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

Republican President George W. Bush did not move to suspend habeas corpus after the Sept. 11 attacks, but his administration ...

Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires that the ... The Supreme Court has ruled that immigrants can challenge the legality of their deportation only by filing habeas corpus petitions ...

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 ...