The judge’s initial temporary restraining order blocked the Trump administration from deporting five Venezuelans.

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

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

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

President Donald Trump signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Immigration attorney Brad Bernstein ...

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

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

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

(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 statute justified the imprisonment in World War II of thousands like Heidi Gurcke Donald. She is horrified as Trump invokes it for mass deportation.

Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, claimed he was nullifying pardons and expelled an ambassador, among other things.