Many of us recall from Junior High School Civics, discussions of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, enacted under the administration of Federalist President John Adams. They arose from the ...

Daniel Tichenor, University of Oregon As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on ...

President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua members, provoking a legal fight. Here's what to know about the controversial law, which was last used during World War II.

(THE CONVERSATION) As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify ...

It is “very, very clear” that the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 by President Trump requires a declaration of ...

Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act to send hundreds of people with alleged Venezuelan gang ties to El Salvador, ignoring ...

Telnaes points out that this isn’t the first betrayal in our history, and she could have gone back to the beginning of the nation and added the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which would seem ...

Here, two crises combine: a power grab that lets the government detain and deport at will with no due process and, if courts ...

His administration deported more than 100 Venezuelan nationals on shaky, potentially unconstitutional grounds—and then ...

The last and perhaps most significant time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked was during World War II. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the law to authorize the arrest, detention, and ...

US President Donald Trump invoked a little-known, centuries-old wartime power, the Alien Enemies Act, to send more than 200 alleged members ...

William Banks, founding director of Syracuse University's Institute for Security Policy and Law, talked about the Trump administration's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to carry out deportations.