Lawyers and advocates say the Trump administration is essentially re-writing the rules to deny people due process in ...

There are a lot of Latin legal terms in the news lately. One that has always been considered essential is habeas corpus. The writ of habeas corpus is a very long-standing human right, recognized since ...

Petitioner was not an 'arriving alien' at the time of his detention." The post 'Argument is somewhat unbelievable': Judge ...

Habeas corpus rescued Walter Rideau from an unjust prison sentence, but during its long history the great writ has been used to muffle the sighs of prisoners as much as to relieve them. On a lazy ...

“That you have the body” is what it literally means. More on that in just a sec. Just a few weeks after I had passed the Bar, I was working for a firm in San Diego. The managing partner called me to ...

From today's opinion from New York's high court in In the Matter of Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc., written by Judge DiFiore: For centuries, the common law writ of habeas corpus has safeguarded the ...

Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to the president who was answering a question about illegal immigration, told reporters May 9 that the Trump administration is “actively looking at” suspending the ...

On Monday, the White House would not rule out suspending habeas corpus ahead of the approach of a migrant caravan to the US border. Suspending habeas corpus is seen as a move that could allow ...

As my co-blogger Ilya Somin notes below, White House aide Stephen Miller commented today that the Trump Administration is "actively looking at" whether it would be possible to suspend the writ of ...

Spouses Cesar and Celia Veloso have asked the Supreme Court to release their daughter, Mary Jane Veloso, on the ground that ...

The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers on Friday filed a petition for the writ of habeas corpus at the Supreme Court for Mary ...

SPRINGFIELD — This type of court order helped overturn Brad Jennings’ murder conviction. Jennings is currently in prison, as he was convicted of the 2006 murder of his wife Lisa Jennings. The Writ of ...