President Donald Trump's Homeland Security secretary's idea of the government's power to suspend habeas corpus has been discredited, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale told anchors on Tuesday — by a Supreme Court justice Trump himself appointed.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the constitutional provision that allows people to legally challenge their detention by the government is actually a tool the Trump administration can use in its broader crackdown at the U.

“Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people,” Hassan said, explaining an undergraduate-level principle to the acting DHS director.

As my co-blogger Ilya Somin notes below, White House aide Stephen Miller commented today that the Trump Administration is "actively looking at" whether it

despite what Donald Trump claims and what White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the aide who floated the habeas corpus suspension idea, says. Only four times has the Great Writ been ...

told reporters on Friday that the administration could circumvent habeas corpus under claims of an “invasion.” The right of habeas corpus is directly given in Article I of the U.S ...