A federal appeals court has thrown out a major lawsuit challenging the government’s use of the historic Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The court ruled that the case can no longer move forward because the ...

The court dismissed a case over the Alien Enemies Act in a messy conclusion to a long-running legal battle that had seemed destined to end up before the Supreme Court. By Alan Feuer For nearly a year, ...

The case had returned to the Fifth Circuit after the U.S. Supreme Court enjoined the Trump administration from using the 1798 wartime removal statute to rapidly remove immigrants accused of belonging ...

A federal appeals court on Aug. 13 dismissed a major challenge to President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, ruling that the appeal had become moot after the government deported the three ...

A federal judge on Monday said the U.S. government denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador in March after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. The ...

Yesterday, the en banc US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral argument in W.M.M. v. Trump, a case challenging Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The full Fifth Circuit ...

His work further demonstrates that the AEA cannot be used in response to illegal migration or drug smuggling, but only when there is a military attack. A prison guard transfers Alien Enemies Act ...