The Alien and Sedition Acts was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t ...

What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the Trump administration to resume deporting Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies ...

By dusting off this disgraced law and using it to deny people their rights, President Donald Trump seeks to erase the moral ...

Immigration policy being at the forefront of politics is nothing new. From the nation’s founding to modern day, the policies ...

Federal judges are looking back to the 18th century to define what constitutes an invasion, weighing a key legal argument for ...

Any military attack or "operation of war" (as James Madison defined "invasion" in his Report of 1800 discussing the Alien and Sedition Acts, of which the AEA was a part) necessarily involves "a ...

Known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts, they consisted of the Alien Act, Sedition Act, Naturalization Act, and Alien Enemies Act. Although these laws continue to pop up regularly in ...

the author of The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution. When the Alien Enemies Act was signed into law in 1798, the U.S. was locked in an undeclared naval war with France.

it made up the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which President John Adams signed into law at a time when the U.S. faced the prospect of war with France. "Whenever there shall be a declared war ...