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

Harvard Law School professor W. Neil Eggleston — former President Barack Obama’s White House Counsel and a member of ...

President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798​ to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members kicked off a legal battle.​ ...

This article was updated on March 28. The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Friday morning, asking the ...

The law’s roots lie in an undeclared sea conflict between a young American nation and France. President John Adams signed the Alien Enemies Act in July 1798 as the United States came to the brink of ...

Congress originally passed the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as the U.S. was poised to go to war with France. The law grants a ...

U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett repeatedly pressed the Trump administration about the lack of due process protections for ...

"Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than has happened here," a judge told a government lawyer Tuesday.

In an official apology issued by the U.S. government decades later, the federal government admitted the reason for the camps ...

Legal thinkers advise caution on denying due process, while GOP lawmakers go along with the Trump administration.

Trump is using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants – but the 18th-century law has been invoked only during times of ...

In the New York Times, Devlin Barrett reports that "Trump administration lawyers have determined that an 18th-century wartime ...