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Telnaes points out that this isn’t the first betrayal in our history, and she could have gone back to the beginning of the nation and added the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which would seem ...

Daniel Tichenor, University of Oregon As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify ...

Less than a month into the second Trump administration, the White House began publicly toying with the idea of defying court ...

His administration deported more than 100 Venezuelan nationals on shaky, potentially unconstitutional grounds—and then ...

US President Donald Trump invoked a little-known, centuries-old wartime power, the Alien Enemies Act, to send more than 200 ...

The U.S. deported hundreds of immigrants after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II. He ...

Donald Trump on Saturday invoked a wartime relic known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speed up his terrifying mass ...

Trump invoked the wartime authority Alien Enemies Act, targeting members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua for expedited ...

Trump and his inner circle of fascist sympathizers are systematically demolishing legal and constitutional restraints, with ...

President Trump says he’s using the 227-year-old law to crack down on Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang. The move is already ...