Two Latin words – 'habeas corpus' – protect any person, whether citizen or not, from being illegally confined. deepblue4you, iStock / Getty Images Plus In some parts of the world, a person may be ...

Habeas Corpus has protected our rights since before America’s founding. Today, the Trump administration has threatened to suspend this right to carry out its unlawful immigration agenda. The Trump ...

The future of habeas corpus has been pushed into the spotlight as President Donald Trump has been involved in discussions inside his administration over potentially taking the extreme step of ...

Habeas corpus is a legal principle that allows people who believe they are being unlawfully detained or imprisoned to petition for their release in court. Immigrants and rights groups have filed ...

Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin weighed in on the White House considering suspending habeas corpus, or the right to challenge the legality of detention, amid President Trump’s crackdown on ...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem got a pop quiz at a senate hearing this week. The question came from Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan, of New Hampshire. Hassan asked Noem to to explain ...

A federal judge has cast doubts on the habeas corpus request brought by former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, giving Peters 30 days to show why the request shouldn’t be denied in a ruling Monday. The ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrea Seielstad, University of Dayton (THE CONVERSATION) In some parts of the world, ...