With the 1798 Alien Enemies Law in the news as the Trump administration attempts to remove foreign nationals from the United States without the ...

President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born ...

On March 28, Trump asked the Supreme Court for permission under the act to resume deporting Venezuelans to El Salvador while ...

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

The fatal defects of Trump's position are further illuminated when you compare Trump's stance with James Madison's 1800 "Report on the Alien and Sedition Acts." (The Alien Enemies Act was one of ...

I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.” ­­— Voltaire (1694-1778) When Thomas ...

The act was part of a series of four laws passed in 1798 known as the Alien and Sedition Acts. These laws, among other things, gave the president the power to deport any noncitizen thought to be ...

This crowd spent several hours grilling Bausch, trying again to convince him to buy bonds, but he would not budge. So he was charged under the Montana Sedition Act, and sentenced to four years in ...

James Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, insisted upon referring to speech as “the” freedom of speech, so as to ...