James Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, insisted upon referring to speech as “the” freedom of speech, so as to ...

Trump is using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants – but the 18th-century law has been invoked only during times of ...

The court was skeptical of Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to defend the deportations. The act, passed in 1798, gives the president the power to detain and remove people from the United States in ...

When the name tags are removed, bad things happen. Protesters and dissidents everywhere know this rule: rogue lawpersons and ...

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

A prisoner is told, “If you tell a lie, we will hang you, and if you tell the truth, we will shoot you” What did the prisoner ...

The Alien Enemies Act is one of the laws enacted as part of the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 under President John Adams and the Federalist-controlled Congress. At the time, the U.S. was ...

Donald Trump’s lust for revenge keeps widening. It now includes law firms who have challenged him, a prestigious university that he feels cheated him, and voters, especially women, who ...

Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class ...

The legal question here isn’t necessarily what the administration is doing; it's how the administration is doing it.