White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller was all like, “Yo, the Trump administration is like totally thinking about suspending habeas corpus, you know, the right of a person to challenge their detention in court and stuff.” If President Donald Trump goes through with it, it would be a big deal, like a major escalation of his whole immigration policy and stuff.
A reporter was all, “Hey, when is this gonna happen, bro?” to Miller outside the White House. Miller was like, “Well, the Constitution says that habeas corpus can be suspended during an invasion, so yeah, we’re like, looking into it and stuff.”
The Constitution says that habeas corpus can be suspended in like, really crazy times, you know, like during a war or something. The U.S. has suspended it a few times before, like during the Civil War and after Pearl Harbor got bombed and stuff.
Miller was like, “Yeah, we’re facing a big national security threat with all these undocumented migrants coming in, so we gotta do something about it, you know?” Trump already used some law to deport some people from Venezuela real quick, but some judges were like, “Nah, that ain’t right.”
Miller was all, “We’ll see what the courts say, I guess.” But some law dude was like, “Nah, only Congress can suspend habeas corpus, not the president, so this is all messed up.”
Back in the day, President Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War, but some judge dude said it wasn’t cool. Lincoln had to get Congress to approve it later on.
Yeah, so that’s the scoop on the whole habeas corpus thing. It’s a big deal and stuff, so we’ll see what happens next, I guess.
