President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798​ to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members kicked off a legal battle.​ ...
The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the ...
The Trump administration deported of 137 Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Judge James E. Boasberg ...
The legal question here isn’t necessarily what the administration is doing; it's how the administration is doing it.
John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the ...
The law’s roots lie in an undeclared sea conflict between a young American nation and France. President John Adams signed the ...
I am an Adams Memorial Foundation Scholar and have written an op-ed for them. When John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797, he inherited from George Washington a new ...
Donald Trump is expected to invoke a rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in an effort to ramp up deportations.
President Trump reposted an article on social media accusing judges of "sedition and treason" when they overturn executive ...