The prisoner’s paradox teaches that systems can be confounded by their contradictions. Nigeria’s democracy, too, defies doom prophecies. Its progress is nonlinear—a dance of setbacks and breakthroughs ...

President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born ...

James Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, insisted upon referring to speech as “the” freedom of speech, so as to ...

Trump is using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants – but the 18th-century law has been invoked only during times of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A federal appeals court on March 26, 2025, upheld a temporary block on President Donald Trump’s deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants, including alleged members of the ...

President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798​ to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members kicked off a legal battle.​ ...

The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the ...

The law’s roots lie in an undeclared sea conflict between a young American nation and France. President John Adams signed the Alien Enemies Act in July 1798 as the United States came to the brink of ...

Today we face a constitutional crisis as the current administration has invoked the same statute, The Alien and Sedition Act of 1798, to remove immigrants without due process. This act has only ...

So in 1798, the Federalists tried to quell domestic opposition by passing the Alien and Sedition Acts, a series of controversial laws that banned political dissent by limiting free speech.

passed the Alien Enemies Act as part of the four Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 as the U.S. stood on the brink of war with France. "There was a lot of fear-mongering about French supporters in ...