“Federal habeas corpus is a procedure under which a federal court may review the legality of an individual's incarceration,” ...

The writ of habeas corpus, a right deeply rooted in English common law and recognized by the U.S. Constitution, allows people ...

The Republican senator from Kentucky spoke with CT about his goals and motives in recent controversies in Washington and the ...

President Trump wants to suspend what could be called the greatest of the Great Writs in Anglo-Saxon common law.

No president, even Lincoln, has ever suspended the writ without Congress.

Habeas corpus allows an individual to challenge their detention in jails or immigration detention centers — and bring their ...

The Trump White House is 1,000% wrong in “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus in the context of immigration. It is ...

The argument has always been there — that an armed populace is a hedge against an oppressive regime that ignores due process and confines perceived enemies of the state.

Alison LaCroix, Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and associate member of the Department of History at the University of ...

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The administration wants to do what it chooses without checks upon its powers. That is a dictatorship, not a constitutional ...

If White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is to be believed, Team Trump is poised to drive another stake through ...