An extraordinary legal showdown took place last weekend over President Donald Trump’s invocation of an 18th century wartime ...

A U.S. federal judge asked the Trump administration to explain how it failed to act on its court order to halt the ...

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

The White House is insisting the Trump administration did not violate a court order when it deported more than 200 immigrants ...

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

A minute-by-minute timeline of events of the Trump administration's race against the clock to deport alleged members of the ...

Presidents are given the extraordinary power by the 227-year-old law to order the arrest, detention and deportation of ...

Trump officials said the deportations don’t violate a judge’s order barring use of the Alien Enemies Act for removals -- but ...

Trump quietly invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on Friday for the first time since World War II to speed the deportation ...

On Monday evening, a federal judge will press the Trump Administration on whether it violated a court order forbidding the deportation of detained non-citizens with little or no due process.

137 of whom were removed under the Alien Enemies Act over alleged gang ties, a senior administration official said. The White House and Justice Department have said they had already been removed ...

the American Civil Liberties Union and Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit accusing the White House of preparing to imminently deport five Venezuelan men under the Alien Enemies Act. Chief Judge of ...