{"id":281,"date":"2020-08-11T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/?page_id=281"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:17","slug":"department-of-homeland-security-v-thuraissigiam-the-suspension-clause-and-the-preservation-of-the-separation-of-powers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/in-print\/volume-34-number-3-spring-2020\/department-of-homeland-security-v-thuraissigiam-the-suspension-clause-and-the-preservation-of-the-separation-of-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam: The Suspension Clause and the Preservation of the Separation of Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>The Suspension Clause is a bedrock element of the structural separation of\u00a0powers devised by the nation\u2019s founders, who sought systemic security of\u00a0individual liberty. The Writ of Habeas Corpus is a safeguard against arbitrary imprisonment, which Alexander Hamilton described as among \u201cthe favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.\u201d The Clause ensures the\u00a0judiciary will watch over the government\u2019s application of power to individuals and never turn a blind eye to those imprisoned by executive force, absent\u00a0the requisite public necessity. Congress may limit the protections of the Writ\u00a0in certain circumstances and has done so in the case of noncitizens subject to\u201cexpedited removal\u201d under the immigration laws of the United States.\u00a0Congress has placed limitations on judicial review of administrative determinations regarding credible fear of return for otherwise deportable individuals. The constitutionality of those limitations is the question before the Court in<em> Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/08\/Department-of-Homeland-Security-v.-Thuraissigiam-The-Suspension-Clause-and-the-Preservation-of-the-Separation-of-Powers.pdf\">Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam: The Suspension Clause and the Preservation of the Separation of Powers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Suspension Clause is a bedrock element of the structural separation of\u00a0powers devised by the nation\u2019s founders, who sought systemic security of\u00a0individual liberty. The Writ of Habeas Corpus is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"parent":442,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-281","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions\/319"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}