The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed the denial of federal habeas relief for Juan Carlos Alvarez, a ...

Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal judge on Wednesday to set aside her sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence, ...

Internet sleuths discovered a glaring omission from Congress’s official Constitution website. The “Constitution Annotated,” maintained by the Library of Congress, no longer includes the right of ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A coding error caused a part of the U.S. Constitution to be temporarily removed from the Constitution Annotated website, officials said. The ...

Key sections of the US Constitution were temporarily removed from Congress' website. Provisions including habeas corpus (due process) and the prohibition of nobility titles (like, say, King) vanished ...

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 ...

Question: Can a U.S. President suspend the "writ of habeas corpus"? Answer: The writ of habeas corpus is a safeguard against unlawful detention. It requires the government to justify, under the law, ...

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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 ...

Former Trump White House advisor turned MAGA podcaster, Steve Bannon, straight up called for President Donald Trump to suspend the writ of habeas corpus on Thursday, in response to recent court ...

Testifying before a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was asked what the writ of habeas corpus is. Her response was that “habeas corpus is a constitutional ...

A writ of habeas corpus actually requires authorities to produce a prisoner and justify that person's continued detainment. In May 2025, as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified before the ...