The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the tenuous period following the Revolutionary War.

President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua members, provoking a legal fight. Here's what to know about the controversial law, which was last used during World War II.

It is “very, very clear” that the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 by President Trump requires a declaration of war before it can be implemented, according to Timothy J. Sullivan, president ...

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The use of the Alien and Sedition Acts to target a group pre-supposed to be hostile to Adams’s political agenda was based entirely on a desire to target political enemies. Particular people ...

To justify the immediate deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members, the president is invoking a rarely used statute that does not seem to give him the authority he claims.

They were known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts and were enacted by the Adams’s Federalist Party Congress in response to mounting belligerent acts by the French against U.S. ships.

The first branch of government should stop or empower Trump's use of the Enemy Aliens Act. Instead, Congress chooses to ...

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to enforce the Alien Enemies Act for now, handing the White House ...

So in 1798, the Federalists tried to quell domestic opposition by passing the Alien and Sedition Acts, a series of controversial laws that banned political dissent by limiting free speech.

Nicole Brown Chau is a deputy managing editor for CBSNews.com. She writes and edits national news, health stories, explainers and more. The March 15 order was upheld by a federal appeals court on ...

Before the current Trump administration, the law had been invoked just three times. By Tim Balk The centuries-old wartime law invoked by President Trump to summarily deport Venezuelans accused of ...