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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,” ...

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

No president, even Lincoln, has ever suspended the writ without Congress.