The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the ...

The use of the Alien and Sedition Acts to target a group pre-supposed to be hostile to Adams’s political agenda was based entirely on a desire to target political enemies. Particular people ...

President John Adams was about to sign the Alien and Sedition Acts, including the Alien Enemies Act––the law the Trump ...

On March 28, Trump asked the Supreme Court for permission under the act to resume deporting Venezuelans to El Salvador while ...

They were known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts and were enacted by the Adams’s Federalist Party Congress in response to mounting belligerent acts by the French against U.S. ships.

which is the last remaining vestige of the notoriously repressive Alien and Sedition Acts. The AEA applies only when "there is a declared war" between the United States and a "foreign nation or ...

The Supreme Court early Saturday halted the administration’s ability to use the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport migrants ...

As a result, Congress passed a package of bills known as the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Alien Enemies Act would permit the president to expel “enemies” during times of war. The problem with ...

The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a court order that blocked President Donald Trump from deporting Venezuelans under the Alien ...

President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants suspected of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang quickly kicked off a legal battle. A federal judge ...

The Trump administration deported of 137 Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Judge James E. Boasberg ordered flights not to take-off, and, once they did anyway, to return to ...