While headlines chase Trump’s Middle East adventures, something far more concerning is brewing quietly at home. The US Homeland Security Secretary just announced that the conditions required to suspend habeas corpus—the centuries-old legal protection against unlawful detention—justification is immigration at the southern border.
Legal experts are sounding alarm bells, calling this move potentially “disastrous” for democracy. Habeas corpus has only been suspended four times in U.S. history (think Civil War-level emergencies). Could we really be witnessing a fifth?
