John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the ...

Donald Trump is expected to invoke a rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in an effort to ramp up deportations.

President Donald Trump issued an executive proclamation invoking the use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify ...

The law lets the president skip the usual immigration court process to detain and deport anyone age 14 or older who is from ...

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

US President Donald Trump invoked a little-known, centuries-old wartime power, the Alien Enemies Act, to send more than 200 ...

President Trump is considering invoking the Alien Enemies Act, a law that is 200+ years old, to further his mass deportation ...

Media reports indicate the Trump Administration may be about to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a tool to facilitate ...

President Trump says he’s using the 227-year-old law to crack down on Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang. The move is already ...

Trump has made deporting illegal immigrants, especially members of criminal organizations such as Tren de Aragua, a priority ...

Newsweek has reached out to the White House on Thursday afternoon for comment.