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 ...

Reading the 1798 Alien Enemies Act the only way it can be read, Texas Federal Judge Fernando Rodriguez has issued a permanent injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from using the old law to ...

The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the tenuous period following the Revolutionary War. Japanese Americans deal with ...