The Alien Enemies Act empowers presidents to apprehend and remove foreign nationals from countries that are at war with the United States. U.S. presidents have issued executive proclamations and ...

US President Donald Trump invoked a little-known, centuries-old wartime power, the Alien Enemies Act ... with the United ...

John Adams called the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 "war measures." To opponents, they were unconstitutional and indefensible. To supporters, they protected the very foundations of the nation.

Henderson explained that the Alien Enemies Act applies only in wartime. At the moment, of course, the United States is not at war. As Judge Henderson wrote, the Alien Enemies Act was enacted ...

ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt said his team was still hoping to get another nationwide injunction but was prepared to "go district by district" to block Alien Enemies Act deportations. Peter has worked ...

They claimed a wartime power for the president by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, adopted when President John Adams feared a war with France, which had been seizing American ships.

🎧 The Alien Enemies Act has only been used three times in U.S. history, all when the country was at war, according to NPR's Joel Rose. The Trump administration argues the act should apply to ...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the agency has “no assessment” that the U.S. is at war with Venezuela ... In igniting the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, Trump has accused Venezuelan President ...