The centuries-old tool is a bedrock principle of constitutional democracy that protects against unlawful detention.

The judge, for her part, said she was simply requiring the government to bring its standards in line with a case she decided ...

U.S. Supreme Court affirms that a second habeas petition filed while the first is on appeal is “second or successive” under ...

Online records show a Spanish-language journalist who livestreamed his own arrest at a weekend protest outside Atlanta was ...

A federal judge in Maine has ruled that a 43-year-old migrant man who came to the U.S. at age 7 cannot yet be deported to the ...

The US Supreme Court made it even harder for inmates to challenge their confinement. In a unanimous ruling by Justice Ketanji ...

Robert Roberson's attorneys have filed an objection to the Texas Attorney General's request for an execution date, citing new ...

The Trump administration requested the emergency stay earlier on Tuesday, arguing that a federal judge was wrongfully forcing ...