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 ...

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A federal appeals court on Aug. 13 dismissed a major challenge to President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, ruling that the appeal had become moot after the government deported the three ...

A federal appeals court shot down President Donald Trump’s claim that Venezuelan cartels have “invaded” the U.S., denying the administration’s bid to assume sweeping wartime deportation powers under ...

In 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts with the support of the Adams Administration. The Alien Act granted the President unilateral authority to deport non-citizens who were subjects of ...

Sept 2 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans he alleged were part of a criminal gang. In ...

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 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 ...

President Donald Trump called a federal court “Highly Partisan” after it ruled against his tariffs last Friday. Indeed, Democrats have nominated more than twice as many judges to the U.S. Court of ...

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 ...