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

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 president’s invocation of the wartime law enacted in 1798 was quickly blocked by a federal judge. It had only been used ...

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

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

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

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

Experts predict a swift legal challenge to Trump's 'novel' approach of invoking wartime powers to target immigration.

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

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

(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 ...