The book, June 15 -- In the early weeks of April 2025, with federal judges blocking the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants to Salvadoran prisons, deputy White House chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller pressed the West Wing to take a step no president has taken since Abraham Lincoln: suspend habeas corpus, the constitutional right that compels the government to justify a detention in court. That fight - and how close it came to producing an actual suspension - is the heart of a forthcoming book by New York Times correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, an early excerpt of which The New Republic published Monday.

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