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

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

Habeas corpus allows people to challenge unlawful detention – something the Homeland Security secretary appeared not to know ...

Parliament enacted the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679, which was meant to ensure that the king released prisoners when the law did not justify confining them.The Constitution’s Suspension Clause ...

Sen. Maggie Hassan hit back at the Homeland Security secretary's incorrect definition of a foundational right that separates the U.S. from "police states." ...

“The Constitution is clear, and that, of course, is the supreme law of the land, that the privilege of the writ of habeas ...