John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the ...

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

Now, you will be shocked, I'm sure, to learn how the administration is misusing this Revolutionary-era relic to serve the ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive proclamation invoking the use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport ...

Donald Trump is expected to invoke a rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in an effort to ramp up deportations.

(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 ...

US President Donald Trump invoked a little-known, centuries-old wartime power, the Alien Enemies Act, to send more than 200 ...

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

Media reports indicate the Trump Administration may be about to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a tool to facilitate ...

Trump has made deporting illegal immigrants, especially members of criminal organizations such as Tren de Aragua, a priority ...

President Trump says he’s using the 227-year-old law to crack down on Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang. The move is already ...

At a time when the current presidential administration is tightening control of the media and even invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 – which Adams signed into law alongside the Sedition Act ...