Trump's Homeland Security secretary says habeas corpus lets him 'remove people from this country'

[Eugene]

Earlier DU threads:
• Aaron Parnas: BREAKING: Kristi Noem doesn't know what Habeas Corpus is.
• 'Incorrect!' Kristi Noem shamed on live TV for ignorance about habeas corpus
• Maddow Blog-Kristi Noem flunks an important test on the basic meaning of habeas corpus

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Source: Associated Press

Trump’s Homeland Security secretary says habeas corpus lets him ‘remove people from this country’

By MEG KINNARD
Updated 3:52 PM EDT, May 20, 2025

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.S.-Mexico border. She called habeas corpus “a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country and suspend their rights.”

Noem, testifying before a congressional committee Tuesday, gave that response when asked by Sen. Maggie Hassan to define the legal concept.

“That’s incorrect,” the New Hampshire Democrat swiftly interrupted Noem, defining the “legal principle that requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people.” Hassan, a former attorney who practiced in Boston, went on to call habeas corpus “the foundational right that separates free societies like America from police states like North Korea.”

The back and forth follows comments by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, who said earlier this month that President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand his administration’s legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally. To achieve that, Miller said the administration is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus.

What is habeas corpus?

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/noem-homeland-security-habeas-corpus-trump-338604206f40fed32c2790608d3e5da6

[Lovie777]

1. WRONG.................

a little woke would have helped you answer correctly.

[hildegaard28]

2. Damn

They're just redefining Constitutional terms now. MAGAts will breathlessly repeat it, and it will become gospel truth to them. Then red states like Oklahoma and Texas will mandate the teaching of that in their public schools.