President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born aliens without due process, based on the mere allegation of membership in a ...

A judge in California on Monday blocked the Trump administration from using the wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants in the Los Angeles area, ruling that the government hasn't ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the most important court decision on a day full of them, the most conservative federal appeals court became the first to ...

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court panel has ruled that President Trump cannot use an 18th century wartime law to speed the deportations of people his administration accuses of being in a Venezuelan ...

The brief was filed on behalf of the Brennan Center, the Cato Institute, law-of-war scholar Prof. John Dehn, and myself. A prison guard transfers Alien Enemies Act deportees from the U.S., alleged to ...

The case stems from an arrest during a routine ICE check-in. Credit: Courtesy Neal via Adobe Stock The case stems from an arrest during a routine ICE check-in. Courtesy Neal via Adobe Stock U.S.

Lee Gelernt, an ACLU lawyer representing the detainees, argued the 1798 law applies to foreign citizens during a military conflict, not crime gangs. Drew Ensign, a Justice Department lawyer, said ...

President Donald Trump acted unlawfully when he issued an executive order applying an 18th century law to alleged Venezuelan gang members to expedite their removal from the United States, an El Paso ...