The court fight focuses on the Trump administration's use of a 1798 law to deport people it claims are part of the Venezuelan ...

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

A Trump Justice Department attorney asserted to a top D.C. federal judge at a hearing Monday afternoon that the government ...

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

Trump issued a proclamation that the 1798 law was newly in effect due to what he claimed was an invasion by the Venezuelan ...

A federal judge is holding hearing Monday to determine whether the Trump administration violated his order to stop a flight ...

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 ...

ACLU lawyers want answers from the federal government about its deportation actions over the weekend. A judge ordered a ...

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

President Donald Trump is battling a court's decision to temporarily block him from using the Alien Enemies Act. The law ...

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