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 ...

President Donald Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a tool that grants the president sweeping power to imprison and ...

Professor of law at Georgetown University David Super speaks with NBC News' Gadi Schwartz about President Trump's invoking of ...

An extraordinary legal showdown took place last weekend over President Donald Trump’s invocation of an 18th century wartime ...

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

Trump issued a proclamation that the 1798 law was newly in effect due to what he claimed was an invasion by the Venezuelan ...

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 ...

Karen Ebel and Grace Shimizu, whose fathers were held prisoner in U.S. internment camps, explain the grave cost of ...

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 ...