The court fight focuses on the Trump administration's use of a 1798 law to deport people it claims are part of the Venezuelan ...

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 ...

A Trump Justice Department attorney asserted to a top D.C. federal judge at a hearing Monday afternoon that the government ...

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

Trump issued a proclamation that the 1798 law was newly in effect due to what he claimed was an invasion by the Venezuelan ...

The act is a sweeping wartime authority that allows noncitizens to be deported without being given the opportunity to go ...

Trump announced Saturday that he would begin using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target Venezuelan migrants, citing the ...

In a 226-year span, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 had been invoked only three times — until now. President Donald Trump fulfilled a campaign promise to use the wartime act as a shortcut to deport ...

A federal judge on Saturday night temporarily blocked President Trump from removing immigrants under a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act ... with whom the United States is not at war ...

The judge’s order came after the administration published an executive order invoking the law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to target Venezuelan gang members in the United States. By Tim Balk ...

President Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to order the ... predatory incursion against the territory of the United States," the legal threshold for invoking the 227-year ...