The ACLU warned "we’re getting very close to" a "constitutional crisis" after Trump carried out deportations despite a ...

During the hearing, the Trump administration repeatedly declined to provide information to Judge Boasberg about how many ...

A federal judge on Monday sharply questioned the Trump administration's compliance with his court order after deportation ...

The government claimed it was not bound by the judge's order to block flights carrying gang members to El Salvador because it ...

District Judge James E. Boasberg was incredulous over the administration’s contentions that his verbal directions did not ...

The White House on Monday was facing a legal battle over its use of the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century law, under which ...

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

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

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

In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that ...