Habeas corpus is a fundamental US legal protection that allows individuals to challenge unlawful detention in court.

"Reinterpreting the Constitution on a whim in an effort to grant authoritarian powers is unpatriotic and un-American." ...

The secretary of Homeland Security raised eyebrows Tuesday by bungling the definition of habeas corpus, a longstanding legal principle regarding due process, during a Senate hearing.

Top White House aide Stephen Miller says the Trump administration is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport ...

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

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Sunday dismissed the Trump administration’s threat to suspend habeas corpus as an effort to ...

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, on the third time the question was asked, that he ...

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

The Trump administration has said it's considering suspending habeas corpus. UC Berkeley law professor Amanda Tyler explains ...

Suspending the right to challenge the legality of one’s detention in court would shred a core tenet of the Constitution.

Last month, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident with protected status who was wrongfully deported to a Salvadoran detention facility.

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