Your fact-checks will appear here
The writ of habeas corpus and its application to non-citizens in the United States.
The Constitution contains no explicit grant of power to declare “martial law,” and that absence shapes multiple legal constraints: Congress controls domestic military deployment through statutes and a...
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE detains a U.S. citizen by mistake, the immediate remedies are procedural: assert citizenship, present documents, and insist on counsel and verification so...
When ICE wrongfully detains a person who is actually a U.S. citizen and disputes their documentation, the immediate remedies are administrative (assert citizenship, present documents, insist on counse...
from / can press federal courts using a combination of administrative requests grounded in the and , and broader civil-rights or state-tribal suits that permit discovery, and habeas or injunctive acti...
has maintained the longstanding baseline that non‑citizens within territory are “persons” entitled to some Fifth Amendment protections while simultaneously reaffirming strong deference to the politica...
wrongfully detained or subjected to removal procedures by immigration authorities have a narrow but potent set of legal remedies — chief among them the writ of , prompt assertion and proof of citizens...
Federal judges have already used traditional habeas and remedies — ordering at least one detainee released and finding warrantless residential entries unconstitutional — while civil plaintiffs and imm...
who are wrongfully detained or swept into face constrained remedies, but there are distinct administrative and limited judicial pathways to challenge detention and orders: administrative review when a...
A web of constitutional protections, statutory rules, and administrative review mechanisms is designed to prevent the deportation of U.S. citizens and to catch government errors before they result in ...