An extraordinary legal showdown took place over Trump’s invocation of an 18th century wartime act to deport hundreds of ...

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

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

Presidents are given the extraordinary power by the 227-year-old law to order the arrest, detention and deportation of ...

Administration officials said they expect the fight over using the wartime act to ultimately head to the Supreme Court.

A minute-by-minute timeline of events of the Trump administration's race against the clock to deport alleged members of the ...

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

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

President Trump invoked the Aliens Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798 on Saturday, fulfilling a campaign promise and GOP party ...

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

Experts predict a swift legal challenge to Trump's 'novel' approach of invoking wartime powers to target immigration.