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.

The Trump administration has taken steps to send immigrants allegedly present illegally in the United States to El Salvador, ...

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.

"Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country," Noem said.

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 ...

It’s a modern version of the Red Scare and the blacklist, the Palmer raids and the McCarthy hearings, the baton-waving cops crushing civil rights demonstrations across the South — all those ...

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