President Donald Trump loves the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. At a campaign rally in Arizona in 2024, Trump said that when he was elected president he would use the act to target undocumented criminal ...

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is not merely a relic of a darker era in American history—it is a live wire capable of short-circuiting rights protected by US constitution. The act’s recent invocation ...

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled in April that probable cause existed to find the Trump administration in criminal contempt over its removal of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador. The Fifth ...

President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born aliens without due process, based on the mere allegation of membership in a ...

President Trump's push to remove people from the U.S. using the wartime Alien Enemies Act got a rare stamp of approval from a federal judge this week, as one of the more controversial parts of Mr.

A pair of judges on a federal appeals court panel seemed skeptical of arguments against President Trump’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport suspected Venezuelan gang members. The ...

President Donald Trump is attempting to use a wartime presidential power that has gone unused for eight decades in an effort to fulfill his campaign promise to deport millions of immigrants. Trump ...

What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from countries the U.S. is at war with. In more than 225 years, the law had been ...

The Trump administration's claims that illegal migration and drug smuggling qualify as an "invasion" or a "predatory incursion" under the Alien Enemies Act go against the major questions doctrine. A ...

Stengel is an MSNBC analyst and the former Editor of TIME. The U.S. Supreme Court is shown on March 17, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Stengel is an MSNBC analyst and the former Editor of TIME. President ...

President Trump's push to remove people from the U.S. using the wartime Alien Enemies Act got a rare stamp of approval from a federal judge this week, as one of the more controversial parts of Mr.