PrivacyDigest<p>What is <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HabeasCorpus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HabeasCorpus</span></a> ? Why Does It Matter?</p><p>The <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration floated an idea in recent weeks: suspending habeas corpus. </p><p>Why? Because over and over again—courts hearing habeas corpus cases have stopped the administration from carrying out massive violations of people’s <a href="https://mas.to/tags/constitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>constitutional</span></a> rights. To get around this obstacle, administration officials now say they are looking into suspending habeas corpus altogether.<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>constitution</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rights</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/civilrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilrights</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/what-is-habeas-corpus-why-does-it-matter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aclu.org/news/immigrants-right</span><span class="invisible">s/what-is-habeas-corpus-why-does-it-matter</span></a></p>