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 ...

The president’s invocation of the wartime law enacted in 1798 was quickly blocked by a federal judge. It had only been used ...

President Trump has invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to allow the federal government to detain or deport people ...

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

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 of 1798 after the president announced earlier in ...

President Donald Trump is preparing to move on another campaign progress: using a centuries-old act to ramp up deportations. He is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, as USA TODAY ...

President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, claiming a Venezuelan gang invasion, to accelerate deportations of undocumented immigrants. A federal judge halted the deportation of five ...