Can someone explain what this means or what they're doing? All I know is that habeas corpus has something to do with you actually showing up in court, physically. It means something like "have the body," in Latin (?)

[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 67 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

They are challenging the legality of the imprisonment of people by ICE. When it is granted, ICE now needs to bring the prisoner before the court, which might help undisappear people, in conjunction with them having to prove they are legally justified to detain them.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 hour ago

I think they're litterally getting people released because ICE knows they can't justify it in court so they release them instead when there's any pushback