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

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

TICHENOR: The Alien and Sedition Acts were incredibly unpopular ... completely done away with and repealed? TICHENOR: I think because it wasn't really used. So the Sedition Act was used.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday issued a 59-page report stating that the US should repeal the Alien Enemies Act. HRW emphasized that US obligations under international law have drastically ...

That statute, An Act Respecting Alien Enemies of July 6 ... people in the US who were nationals of hostile foreign powers on grounds related to national security. US obligations under ...

But the Alien and Sedition Acts were also a way for Adams' Federalist ... When Thomas Jefferson succeeded Adams in 1801, he repealed the other three parts of the Alien and Sedition Acts or let ...