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

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

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

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

Trump issued a proclamation that the 1798 law was newly in effect due to what he claimed was an invasion by the Venezuelan ...

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

Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act against Tren de Aragua members. A federal judge later ordered the administration to turn ...

On Monday evening, a federal judge will press the Trump Administration on whether it violated a court order forbidding the deportation of detained non-citizens with little or no due process.

President Trump is planning to invoke a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as soon as Friday to authorize the summary deportation of some migrants, including to Guantanamo Bay ...