Daily News - April 22nd 2025
A thousand-year-old legal principle is getting a workout under the Trump administration
The legal doctrine of “habeas corpus,” a Latin phrase that has its American roots in English law as early as the 12th century, stands as a barrier to unlawful arrest.
In its essence, habeas corpus protects any person, whether citizen or not, from being illegally confined. Habeas corpus is Latin for “you shall have the body” and requires a judge literally to have the body of any incarcerated person brought physically forward so that the legality of their detention may be assessed.
John Roberts owns this nightmare — and he has no one to blame but himself
And John Roberts owns it all:
— He owns Lisa Murkowski’s whispered fear: “We are all afraid... retaliation is real.”
— He owns the purges of civil servants who tried to do their jobs while Trump loyalists like “Big Balls” and Elon Musk fired anyone not in lockstep.
— He owns the dismantling of our national security infrastructure; gutting the FBI, neutering the NSA, and kneecapping agencies that track hostile foreign actors. ...
Trump May Soon Offer a Motherhood Medal, an Idea Popularized in Nazi Germany
Other proposals, meanwhile, seem aimed at changing cultural attitudes toward childbearing. A prime example of this is the idea of bestowing a special medal on mothers of six or more children. This suggestion came from Malcolm and Simone Collins, a Pennsylvania couple who seem to have appointed themselves heads of the pronatalist movement and were the belles of the ball at NatalCon. The medal was part of a collection of draft executive orders on pronatalism that the Collinses recently sent to the Trump administration.