After serving more than three decades behind bars for murdering their parents, Erik and Lyle Menendez are now eligible for ...

May 3: Attorneys for the Menendez brothers ask the court to reconsider the convictions and life sentences in light of new ...

The post Since Immigration Is an 'Invasion,' a Top Trump Adviser Says, the President Might Suspend Habeas Corpus appeared ...

Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy ruled the state of Maine was at fault for unconstitutionally leaving indigent ...

Alison LaCroix, Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and associate member of the Department of History at the University of Chicago Law School, joins Lisa Dent to discuss habeas corpus. LaCroix ...

Alison LaCroix, Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and associate member of the Department of History at the University of ...

As I watched Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller announce the administration was ‘actively looking’ at suspending habeas corpus, I couldn’t help but think President Donald Trump and ...

“Federal habeas corpus is a procedure under which a federal court may review the legality of an individual's incarceration,” ...

As the administration pushes its “invasion” fantasy, the courts are providing a real-world check on presidential power.

Habeas corpus allows an individual to challenge their detention in jails or immigration detention centers — and bring their ...

President Trump wants to suspend what could be called the greatest of the Great Writs in Anglo-Saxon common law.

The term is from Medieval Latin, and literally means “that you have the body” (from “habeo”, meaning “to have, hold”, and “corpus”, meaning “body”). (Handy to still have that Latin-English dictionary ...