Could Trump Suspend Habeas Corpus to Bypass Judges?
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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There are growing debates over whether President Donald Trump could suspend habeas corpus as a way to bypass judges blocking deportations. Doing so would be regarded as a more extreme method of carrying out his agenda, and in a recent interview, Trump suggested that while he may have this type of capability, he’d rather not use it.
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| 0:00.0 | There are growing debates over whether President Donald Trump could suspend habeas corpus as a way to bypass judges blocking deportations. |
| 0:09.0 | Meanwhile, in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis just announced he submitted plans to the Department of Homeland Security |
| 0:16.0 | that would allow service members of the state's National Guard become immigration judges. |
| 0:22.6 | And in other news, Paramount, the owner of CBS, looks like it is going to settle the $20 billion lawsuit |
| 0:29.1 | that President Donald Trump brought up over the 60 Minutes election coverage. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:45.1 | There are growing debates of where the president Donald Trump could suspend habeas corpus as a way to |
| 0:51.7 | bypass the judges blocking deportations, actually blocking a whole lot of other things. habeas corpus as a way to bypass the judges blocking deportations, actually blocking a whole lot of |
| 0:55.9 | other things. Habius corpus basically here's what it is. It's a legal principle in the U.S. |
| 1:00.7 | Constitution. It protects you and others from unlawful detention. And if Trump were to suspend it, |
| 1:07.9 | it would be regarded as a kind of very serious method to carry out his agenda. |
| 1:13.6 | But in a recent meeting, Trump suggested that while he may have this capability, he'd rather |
| 1:19.2 | not use it. This was him making comments during a cabinet meeting earlier this week. |
| 1:23.5 | You mentioned this last night in your speech in McComb, but we're facing an unprecedented situation |
| 1:28.3 | where there's a lot of abuses of nationwide injunctions, sort of seemingly designed to curtail your power, |
| 1:35.3 | specifically when it comes to deporting these evil violent aliens that came in over the previous administration. |
| 1:41.3 | Have you spoken to your team about ways to mitigate this and continue to deliver the American people on that? |
| 1:46.0 | Well, there are ways to mitigate it. |
| 1:47.8 | And there's some very strong ways. |
| 1:49.4 | There's one way that's been used by three very highly respected |
| 1:52.8 | presidents, but we hope we don't have to go that route. |
| 1:56.3 | But there is one way that has been used very successfully |
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