The Alien and Sedition Acts was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t ...

President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born ...

In Proclamation 10903 on March 14, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to declare that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua ...

President Donald Trump, both in his first term and now in the first 100-plus days of his second, has consistently tested — ...

For the last few weeks, there has been ongoing litigation over President Trump's effort to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 ...

Known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts, they consisted of the Alien Act, Sedition Act, Naturalization Act, and Alien Enemies Act. Although these laws continue to pop up regularly in ...

Along with the Naturalization Act, the Sedition Act, and the Alien Friends Act, it made up the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which President John Adams signed into law at a time when the U.S ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the Trump administration to resume deporting Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies ...

Federal judges are looking back to the 18th century to define what constitutes an invasion, weighing a key legal argument for ...

In fact, the Alien Enemies Act was part of a suite of laws known as the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by the Federalists which included the Alien Friends Act, which allowed the president to expel ...