Congress launches probe into talks to suspend habeas corpus
House Democrats opened a congressional probe and demanded memoranda and presidential records from the Trump White House about whether aides considered suspending the writ of habeas corpus and invoking the Insurrection Act. Internal memos reviewed by investigators show Stephen Miller repeatedly pushed to suspend habeas corpus for undocumented immigrants and JD Vance urged invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy troops against protesters, while White House lawyers warned of constitutional limits. Democrats told the White House to preserve and turn over all related records as part of oversight and legal preservation efforts. The probe matters because suspending habeas corpus would let the executive move to detain or deport people without judicial review, raising fundamental constitutional and civil liberties stakes.
