Federal judges are looking back to the 18th century to define what constitutes an invasion, weighing a key legal argument for ...

U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines, a Trump nominee, ruled the president is legally allowed to use the 18th-century law to ...

What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from ...

Alien Enemies Act the only way it can be read, Texas Federal Judge Fernando Rodriguez has issued a permanent injunction ...

The Alien Enemies Act was passed because the Founding Fathers understood that the president would need to be able to take action in response to threats from hostile foreign actors.

A federal judge says that President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan immigrants is unlawful. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's the first ruling of its kind. The decision comes ...

The decision from U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. in the Southern District of Texas is the first direct ruling against Trump’s use of the 18th-century law to rapidly remove hundreds of ...

Rodriguez described the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act as “unlawful.” Senate Judiciary Committee The Brownsville-based judge ruled that Tren de Aragua’s activities in ...

U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act—an 18th-century wartime law—to deport alleged members of the Venezuelan ...

District Court Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. said in a filing the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 cannot be used against people the Trump administration alleges are gang members. Rodriguez’s ruling ...

A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from using an 18th-century wartime law to deport ...