The Alien Act was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t actually happen. In 1798, President John Adams signed a series of four bills designed to ...

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A federal appeals court shot down President Donald Trump’s claim that Venezuelan cartels have “invaded” the U.S., denying the administration’s bid to assume sweeping wartime deportation powers under ...

A federal appeals court ruled the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 can’t be used to deport members of Tren de Aragua, which has been a target of the Trump administration. The act was established to give ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. President Donald Trump was blocked by a federal appeals court from ...

The case is likely to be the first to reach the Supreme Court on the substantive issue of the president’s invocation of a rarely used wartime law. By Alan Feuer The Justice Department and the American ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court panel has ruled that President Donald Trump cannot use an 18th-century wartime law to speed the deportations of people his administration accuses of being in ...

Hours after ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was formally charged with narcoterrorism and other offenses in New York, the Justice Department used the indictment at a federal courthouse 1,300 ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot invoke the 1798 Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to deport Venezuelan nationals and enjoined ...