The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the tenuous period following the Revolutionary War.

President John Adams was about to sign the Alien and Sedition Acts, including the Alien Enemies Act––the law the Trump ...

The use of the Alien and Sedition Acts to target a group pre-supposed to be hostile to Adams’s political agenda was based entirely on a desire to target political enemies. Particular people ...

How much to you know about the recent Supreme Court ruling on President Donald Trump’s implementation of the Alien Enemies ...

The issue at hand is the rule of law and due process. You can disagree with a federal judge, but you ignore their rulings at ...

The first branch of government should stop or empower Trump's use of the Enemy Aliens Act. Instead, Congress chooses to ...

They were known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts and were enacted by the Adams’s Federalist Party Congress in response to mounting belligerent acts by the French against U.S. ships.

which is the last remaining vestige of the notoriously repressive Alien and Sedition Acts. The AEA applies only when "there is a declared war" between the United States and a "foreign nation or ...

Nicole Brown Chau is a deputy managing editor for CBSNews.com. She writes and edits national news, health stories, explainers and more. The March 15 order was upheld by a federal appeals court on ...

Before the current Trump administration, the law had been invoked just three times. By Tim Balk The centuries-old wartime law invoked by President Trump to summarily deport Venezuelans accused of ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a court order that blocked President Donald Trump from deporting Venezuelans under ...

The Trump administration deported of 137 Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Judge James E. Boasberg ordered flights not to take-off, and, once they did anyway, to return to ...