A special counsel found that a government lawyer helped mislead a judge into releasing a man wanted for homicide abroad, but largely blamed the Trump administration.

Administration officials have suggested suspending a legal principle that protects against unlawful detention, and struggled to accurately define it.

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Secret memos show that the White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants.

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