Last week, the Supreme Court issued what should be two relatively uncontroversial opinions. One affirmed that people faced with ruinous penalties are entitled to a trial; the other said that when they ...

I remember in my political science class in college hearing about the importance of due process in American law. Due process is a legal term referring to the principle of fairness in legal matters.

The U.S. is losing its commitment to due process and the rule of law. Due process, rooted in the Magna Carta and codified in the U.S. Constitution, protects citizens from unlawful deprivation of life, ...

Sir William Blackstone famously said that it is "better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer." The maxim expressed by that English jurist was perhaps no more popular in 1765 ...

The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution states in part, quote, No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of the law. One of the founding principles of the United ...

As Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter put it: "The history of American freedom is, in no small measure, the history of procedure." The scale of threats to due process, however, has greatly ...

-Do non-citizens have the right to due process? - What is the Alien Enemies Act? - Ways to advocate for due process rights of non-citizens Due process is a fundamental right guaranteed by the U.S.

Last month a federal court of appeals judge made a startling assertion. “Nazis,” she said, “got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act” than people suspected of being members of a Venezuelan ...

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