Stengel is an MSNBC analyst and the former Editor of TIME. The U.S. Supreme Court is shown on March 17, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Stengel is an MSNBC analyst and the former Editor of TIME. President Donald Trump loves the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is not merely a relic of a darker era in American history—it is a live wire capable of short-circuiting rights protected by US constitution. The act’s recent invocation by the Trump administration to summarily detain and ...

In 1798, President John Adams signed a series of four bills designed to safeguard national security in times of war. Known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts, they consisted of the Alien Act, Sedition Act, Naturalization Act, and Alien Enemies Act.

Bradley Devlin is politics editor for The Daily Signal. Send an email to Bradley. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gang member and citizen from El Salvador, has become an avatar of The Resistance 2.0. The story of his deportation to El Salvador under ...

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 criminal street gang. But the text of the Alien Enemies Act ...

What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from countries the U.S. is at war with. In more than 225 years, the law had been invoked just three times, always during major conflicts that ...