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

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

The brothers were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering their father Jose ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Trump White House is 1,000% wrong in “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus in the context of immigration. It is ...