The Alien and Sedition Acts was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t ...

Known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts, they consisted of the Alien Act, Sedition Act, Naturalization Act, and Alien Enemies Act. Although these laws continue to pop up regularly in ...

What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the Trump administration to resume deporting Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies ...

For the last few weeks, there has been ongoing litigation over President Trump's effort to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 ...

They felt that we needed to ready the country for a possible war with France and were in no mood to put up with any kind of disloyal speech. So that's where the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 came ...

The use of the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 is a black scar on both political parties. American citizens of Japanese ethnicity were robbed of their possessions and jailed in concentration camps via ...