Habeas corpus is a fundamental US legal protection that allows individuals to challenge unlawful detention in court.

Trump advisor Stephen Miller suggested Friday the Trump administration is considering suspending the writ of habeas corpus to more easily detain immigrants—meaning denying them the right to protest their detention—the latest suggestion by Trump ...

Miller claimed the U.S. can suspend the right to challenge the legality of a person’s detention “in time of invasion.”

Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to the president ... said the Constitution says “the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion.” Habeas corpus — Latin ...

Sen. Maggie Hassan hit back at the Homeland Security secretary's incorrect definition of a foundational right that separates the U.S. from "police states."