Known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts, they consisted of the Alien Act, Sedition Act, Naturalization Act, and Alien Enemies Act. Although these laws continue to pop up regularly in ...

President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants suspected of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang quickly kicked off a legal battle. A federal judge ...

So that's where the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 came out. RUND ABDELFATAH, BYLINE: The Alien and Sedition Acts were made up of four laws. The most famous and controversial one was the Sedition ...

They were known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts and were enacted by the Adams’s Federalist Party Congress in response to mounting belligerent acts by the French against U.S. ships.

Before the current Trump administration, the law had been invoked just three times. By Tim Balk The centuries-old wartime law invoked by President Trump to summarily deport Venezuelans accused of ...

So in 1798, the Federalists tried to quell domestic opposition by passing the Alien and Sedition Acts, a series of controversial laws that banned political dissent by limiting free speech.