The right of due process of law enshrined in our Constitution’s Fifth Amendment is a basic human right that is older than our country, and we had better hope it lasts. Consider the hundreds of human ...

The framers of the Constitution did not invent due process; they inherited it from centuries of English law, most notably the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hans von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues—including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration. Immigration cases are civil rather than criminal proceedings, and ...

FITCHBURG — The campus community will observe Constitution Day all week long with a series of programs — organized by Fitchburg State University Constitution and Law experts — exploring the concept of ...

BOSTON – The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, together with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, the ACLU of New Hampshire, the ACLU of Maine, the law firm Araujo and Fisher, the law ...

FIRST ON FOX: Courts have repeatedly stymied President Donald Trump's efforts to quickly remove noncitizens living illegally in the country, but a conservative think tank is warning that the judiciary ...

A Pennsylvania Senator is looking to criminalize indiscriminate tactics of arrest and detainment by Immigration and Customs ...

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 ...