What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from ...

The President of the United States is widely considered to be the most powerful person in the world. Since the ratification ...

President John Adams regretted signing the Alien & Sedition Acts.  Imagine what he would say today if he learned that one of ...

The Alien and Sedition Acts was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t ...

From the column: "Trump’s and the Republican Party’s apparent desire to control the citizenry parallels that of the ...

Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei from NPR's Throughline talk with Daniel Tichenor, a professor of political science at ...

RUND ABDELFATAH, BYLINE: The Alien and Sedition Acts were made up of four laws ... But I'll just add really quickly, John Adams never invoked it 'cause in his interpretation, we were never - obviously ...

Congress debated the Alien Enemies Act from May through June of 1798 before President John Adams signed it into ... and jailed for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts and then the only person ...

The Congressional record clearly shows the Founding generation understood the Alien Enemies Act as providing broad powers to the president.

His plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American ...