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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the most important court decision on a day full of them, the most conservative federal appeals court became the first to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venezuelan migrants who were jailed in El Salvador get off a plane at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela ...

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 ...

The Court held that the detention was constitutional, but courts had authority "to ascertain the existence of a state of war and whether he is an alien enemy and so subject to the Alien Enemy Act." ...

It is one of President Donald Trump’s most contentious assertions of executive authority: a proclamation, issued in March, calling on the powers of an 18th-century law to round up and deport scores of ...

WASHINGTON — 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 a ...