The Trump administration has said it's considering suspending habeas corpus. UC Berkeley law professor Amanda Tyler explains the concept, what rights it guarantees and whether a suspension is legal.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem bungled a response this week about an important Constitutional ...

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

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the constitutional provision that allows people to legally challenge their detention by the government is actually a tool the Trump administration can use ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio headed to Capitol Hill today for a marathon hearing before his former colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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

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

Where did the principle of habeas corpus come from, and why is the current administration looking to repeal it? Here’s what ...

What if arrest without trial transforms our democracy into a monarchy? What if this happens right before our eyes? What do we do about it?

Trump ally Stephen Miller on Friday said the Trump administration is "actively looking" at eliminating the constitutional provision.

This right also extends to noncitizens held within the United States, and in the case of those migrants who have been detained by the federal government, pending removal from the country as a part of ...