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 ...

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.

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

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

(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 ...

President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, claiming a Venezuelan gang invasion, to accelerate deportations of undocumented immigrants. A federal judge halted the deportation of five ...

U.S. President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport individuals posing national security risks, citing ...