Overview

• At a White House roundtable focused on Antifa, a reporter asked President Trump if he had considered suspending habeas corpus to address unrest and accelerate deportations.
• Trump responded, “Suspending who?” before deferring the question to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
• Noem said she had not been part of any discussions about suspending the writ.
• The exchange drew wide online ridicule and resurfaced a May episode in which Noem misstated habeas corpus during a Senate hearing and was corrected by Sen. Maggie Hassan.
• As of Oct. 9, there is no formal move to suspend habeas corpus, and legal constraints typically reserve suspension to Congress in cases of rebellion or invasion.