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

A U.S. federal judge asked the Trump administration to explain how it failed to act on its court order to halt the ...

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

The White House is insisting the Trump administration did not violate a court order when it deported more than 200 immigrants ...

Presidents are given the extraordinary power by the 227-year-old law to order the arrest, detention and deportation of ...

The judge’s initial temporary restraining order blocked the Trump administration from deporting five Venezuelans.

Administration officials said they expect the fight over using the wartime act to ultimately head to the Supreme Court.

Trump officials said the deportations don’t violate a judge’s order barring use of the Alien Enemies Act for removals -- but ...

Trump quietly invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on Friday for the first time since World War II to speed the deportation ...

President Trump has invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to allow the federal government to detain or deport people ...

District Judge James E. Boasberg — whose order was potentially violated when the Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act and carried out deportation flights — is demanding the Justice ...

President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua members, provoking a legal fight. Here's what to know about the controversial law, which was last used during World War II.