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

For the last few weeks, there has been ongoing litigation over President Trump's effort to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 ...

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

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the Trump administration to resume deporting Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies ...

Federal judges are looking back to the 18th century to define what constitutes an invasion, weighing a key legal argument for ...

Immigration policy being at the forefront of politics is nothing new. From the nation’s founding to modern day, the policies ...

By dusting off this disgraced law and using it to deny people their rights, President Donald Trump seeks to erase the moral ...

Reading the 1798 Alien Enemies Act the only way it can be read, Texas Federal Judge Fernando Rodriguez has issued a permanent injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from using the old law ...

So that's where the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 came out. RUND ABDELFATAH, BYLINE: The Alien and Sedition Acts were made up of four laws. The most famous and controversial one was the Sedition ...

Known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts, they consisted of the Alien Act, Sedition Act, Naturalization Act, and Alien Enemies Act. Although these laws continue to pop up regularly in ...

it made up the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which President John Adams signed into law at a time when the U.S. faced the prospect of war with France. "Whenever there shall be a declared war ...