White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has indicated that the Trump administration is actively considering whether it can suspend habeas corpus, the right of an individual to challenge their ...

Tucked into federal immigration legislation that would create uniform driver’s license requirements across the country and make it more difficult to claim political asylum is a little-known provision ...

That’s not a post title I ever expected to write. By a vote of 5 to 2, New York’s highest court, the New York Court of Appeals, ruled today (in In re Nonhuman Rights Project v. Breheny) that the ...

Congress is debating an amendment limiting the legal rights of detainees at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Two experts discuss the proposal. Nearly 200 of the 500 detainees being held at the ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — A Black man convicted of murdering a woman he says came at him with a box-cutter lost his chance at a retrial Thursday, with the Supreme Court laying out high standards for state ...

Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem, under sharp questioning from Democratic senators during a Tuesday hearing, incorrectly described habeas corpus as a presidential authority to deport individuals ...

Federal habeas corpus may become a dinosaur on the legal landscape unless Congress acts quickly to preserve its existence. Recent Supreme Court decisions cut back on the scope of the writ, and a bill ...

Cho Tae-yong, former Director of the National Intelligence Service, who was arrested on charges including dereliction of duty and violation of political neutrality under the National Intelligence ...