As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the applicability of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to the deportation of Venezuelans, we must go back to the time of the statute’s ...

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 ...

Federalism is enshrined in the Constitution — and it's the best tool for states to fight back against Trump's power grabs.

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 ...

A federal judge in Denver has granted a temporary restraining order barring the removal of migrants from the district of Colorado under the Alien Enemies Act. Lawyers for the American Civil ...

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 ...

Two federal courts on Tuesday temporarily restrained the Trump administration from deporting individuals in their districts under the Alien Enemies Act, with one judge comparing the government’s ...

Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and the Rocky Mountain Immigration Action Network said more immigrants from Colorado are falsely being accused of being Tren de Aragua gang members ...