A U.S. federal judge asked the Trump administration to explain how it failed to act on its court order to halt the ...

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

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 White House is insisting the Trump administration did not violate a court order when it deported more than 200 immigrants ...

On Monday evening, a federal judge will press the Trump Administration on whether it violated a court order forbidding the deportation of detained non-citizens with little or no due process.

The U.S. is facing legal battles and diplomatic tensions as the Trump administration pushes forward with contentious policies ...

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.

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