The Sedition Act wouldn’t be the last time a fearful U.S. Congress preparing for war would try to silence opposition. In 1918, during World War I, Congress passed – and President Woodrow ...

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

They passed the Sedition Act of 1918 to alleviate those concerns ... imprisonment for up to 20 years or both. Looking For Criminal Defense Lawyers Near You? Whatever criminal charges you may ...

Passed as an amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917, the Sedition Act made it prosecutable ... Ellsberg was set to face 115 years in prison, Vox reports, for his famous leaking of the Pentagon ...

Immigration policy being at the forefront of politics is nothing new. From the nation’s founding to modern day, the policies ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The Sedition Act 1948 has been used in 28 cases last year, a 65% increase from 2022 which only saw only 17 cases, says Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram). The human rights watchdog also ...

The act has gotten relatively little attention, let alone use, in the more than 200 years ... John Adams, passed the Alien Enemies Act as part of the four Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 as ...

The acts were passed during an undeclared ... positing that because the Alien and Sedition Acts were thus unconstitutional, they were invalid. In the years leading up to the American Civil War ...

When John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797, he inherited from George Washington a new experiment in government and a bit of a mess. The country’s two political ...