An extraordinary legal showdown took place over Trump’s invocation of an 18th century wartime act to deport hundreds of ...

In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that ...

The judge’s initial temporary restraining order blocked the Trump administration from deporting five Venezuelans.

In a 226-year span, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 had been invoked only three times — until now. President Donald Trump ...

Administration officials said they expect the fight over using the wartime act to ultimately head to the Supreme Court.

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due ...

President Trump is considering invoking the Alien Enemies Act, a law that is 200+ years old, to further his mass deportation ...

The Alien Enemies Act is a wartime law passed in 1798 as part of the Alien and Sedition Acts under President John Adams. It ...

The Alien Enemies Act has been invoked three times before - most recently as a justification for some internments during ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify ...

In his latest bid to flex his fascist muscles, Donald Trump has gone digging through the compost heap of history and pulled ...