Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, in a Senate hearing Tuesday, wrongly defined habeas corpus as "the constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country," adding: "President Lincoln used it." Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) corrected her, defining habeas corpus as a legal principle requiring the government to provide a public reason for a person's detainment, and pointed out that President Abraham Lincoln had suspended it during the Civil War with approval

During a Senate hearing, Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, falsely described habeas corpus as the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people. https://nyti.ms/4jc5XFy | The New York Times