A core principle of the U.S. justice system is that the government must act in accordance with the rule of law. arsenisspyros, iStock Getty Images As the United States edges up to the 250th ...

The U.S. Constitution, legal experts and decades of court decisions agree: Immigrants in the U.S., regardless of how they entered the U.S., legally or illegally, have due process rights. The due ...

President Donald Trump has twice sworn to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States." But about three months after repeating that pledge during his second presidential inauguration, ...

Statement: “If people come into our country illegally, there’s a different standard” for due process. President Donald Trump has twice sworn to "support and defend the Constitution of the United ...

During the military coup in Argentina in the 1970s, the government routinely imprisoned and sometimes executed individuals without as much as charging them with a crime, let alone giving them due ...

Procedural due process ensures that the government follows fair methods, while substantive due process examines the content of government action itself, forbidding certain governmental intrusions ...

Former President Bill Clinton signed a 1996 law establishing expedited removal, a fast-track deportation that allows for deportations without going before an immigration judge. Although people’s due ...

From left: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Becca Balint and Sen. Peter Welch. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDigger On Monday night, the towns of Shaftsbury and Bennington joined a growing number of ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Ray Brescia is the Associate Dean for Research and ...

Judge says mandatory detention violates due process and orders bond hearing for detained immigrant BOSTON – In what appears to be the first decision to address mandatory detention under the Laken ...