In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that ...

An extraordinary legal showdown took place last weekend over President Donald Trump’s invocation of an 18th century wartime ...

The president’s invocation of the wartime law enacted in 1798 was quickly blocked by a federal judge. It had only been used ...

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due ...

In a 226-year span, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 had been invoked only three times — until now. President Donald Trump ...

A U.S. federal judge asked the Trump administration to explain how it failed to act on its court order to halt the ...

Administration officials said they expect the fight over using the wartime act to ultimately head to the Supreme Court.

A minute-by-minute timeline of events of the Trump administration's race against the clock to deport alleged members of the ...

After a federal judge temporarily blocked an effort by President Donald Trump to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, the Trump ...

When Donald Trump invoked the 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members this weekend, I had ...

President Donald Trump ignored a court order blocking him from invoking the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime authority that gives ...