Invoking the law could make it far easier for the Trump administration to detain and deport undocumented immigrants living in ...

In the fractious debates of 1787-88, as the ink dried on a proposed Constitution, a cadre of skeptics—now dubbed Anti-Federalists—peered through the haze of revolutionary optimism to glimpse a ...

The Presidential election of 1800 ended in a tie, as the two Democratic- Republican candidates, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron ...

The Anti-Federalists were no monolith. Patrick Henry thundered against tyranny, George Mason insisted on a Bill of Rights, but lesser-known figures like Brutus, Federal Farmer, and Cato ...

When Donald Trump invoked the 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members this weekend, I had ...

(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 ...

John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the ...

Telnaes points out that this isn’t the first self-betrayal in our history, and she could have gone back to the beginning of ...

It is “very, very clear” that the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 by President Trump requires a declaration of ...

President Trump is considering invoking the Alien Enemies Act, a law that is 200+ years old, to further his mass deportation ...