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Habeas corpus: A thousand-year-old legal principle for defending rights that’s getting a workout under the Trump administration

  • Written by Andrea Seielstad, Professor of Law, University of Dayton
Habeas corpus: A thousand-year-old legal principle for defending rights that’s getting a workout under the Trump administrationTwo Latin words – 'habeas corpus' – protect any person, whether citizen or not, from being illegally confined.deepblue4you, iStock / Getty Images Plus

In some parts of the world, a person may be secreted away or imprisoned by the government without any advanced notification of wrongdoing or chance to make a defense. This has not been...

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