Vermont's Democratic secretary of state says Republican legislation passed by the U.S. House that would require proof of ...

Conservatives have long argued for stronger laws to combat voter fraud, something that election experts say is exceedingly ...

Judges in Texas and New York on Wednesday said they would temporarily bar the U.S. government from deporting Venezuelans ...

The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a 1798 wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport Venezuelan ...

The U.S. entry into World War I represented the start of an era of repression of free speech here and across the country.

In his 1956 study The Power Elite, the left-wing sociologist C Wright Mills scorned the dominant notion that American ...

With the 1798 Alien Enemies Law in the news as the Trump administration attempts to remove foreign nationals from the United States without the ...

Appeals Court Judge Patricia Millett was excoriating the president’s deportation of suspected Tren De Aragua gang members using the Alien Enemies Act. At issue was a nationwide injunction ...

The Alien Enemies Act was one of four 1798 laws known as the Alien and Sedition Acts—a set of controversial statutes that emerged during a tenuous moment in the fledgling nation’s history.

The independent preacher says he is being represented by 13 lawyers as he is investigated for making an allegedly seditious Facebook post.

They were known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts and were enacted by the Adams’s Federalist Party Congress in response to mounting belligerent acts by the French against U.S. ships.

The Alien Enemies Act is the only one of the notorious Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 still in force. But the Act can only be used in the event of a declared war, or an "invasion" or "predatory ...