President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798​ to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members kicked off a legal battle.​ ...

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

President Donald Trump was blocked by a federal appeals court from using an 18th-century wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport Venezuelan migrants his administration says belong to the ...

Or so I've decided to call it, in honor of the 225th anniversary of the vote on renewing the Sedition Act of 1798. The Sedition Act of 1798 famously expired on March 3, 1801, and purported to punish ...