{"id":17777,"date":"2025-05-14T19:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17777"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:28:17","slug":"since-immigration-is-an-invasion-a-top-trump-adviser-says-the-president-might-suspend-habeas-corpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17777","title":{"rendered":"Since Immigration Is an &#8216;Invasion,&#8217; a Top Trump Adviser Says, the President Might Suspend Habeas Corpus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The writ of habeas corpus, a right deeply rooted in English common law and recognized by the U.S. Constitution, allows people nabbed by the government to challenge their detention in court. That complicates President Donald Trump&#8217;s immigration crackdown. Last month, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/04\/08\/the-supreme-court-rejects-trumps-claim-that-he-can-summarily-deport-anyone-he-describes-as-an-alien-enemy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruled<\/a>&nbsp;that foreign nationals who allegedly are subject to immediate deportation as &#8220;alien enemies&#8221; have a right to contest that designation by filing habeas petitions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Although President Donald Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2023\/08\/11\/immigration-invasion-and-habeas-corpus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">views<\/a>&nbsp;unauthorized immigration as an &#8220;invasion,&#8221; judges have been appropriately skeptical of that description. And while Trump might believe judicial review in this context is inconsistent with &#8220;the public safety,&#8221; that assessment is likewise controversial. Finally, the power to suspend habeas corpus has long been understood as belonging to Congress, not the president.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/13\/since-immigration-is-an-invasion-a-top-trump-adviser-says-the-president-might-suspend-habeas-corpus\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/13\/since-immigration-is-an-invasion-a-top-trump-adviser-says-the-president-might-suspend-habeas-corpus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The writ of habeas corpus, a right deeply rooted in English common law and recognized by the U.S. Constitution, allows people nabbed by the government to challenge their detention in court. That complicates President Donald Trump&#8217;s immigration crackdown. Last month, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that foreign nationals who allegedly are subject to immediate deportation as &#8220;alien enemies&#8221; have a right to contest that designation by filing habeas petitions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although President Donald Trump views unauthorized immigration as an &#8220;invasion,&#8221; judges have been appropriately skeptical of that description. And while Trump might believe judicial review in this context is inconsistent with &#8220;the public safety,&#8221; that assessment is likewise controversial. Finally, the power to suspend habeas corpus has long been understood as belonging to Congress, not the president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/13\/since-immigration-is-an-invasion-a-top-trump-adviser-says-the-president-might-suspend-habeas-corpus\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,429,431,660,2207,26,493,25,536],"class_list":["post-17777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-constitution","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-habeas-corpus","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17778,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777\/revisions\/17778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}