Trump quietly invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on Friday for the first time since World War II to speed the deportation of alleged gang members. A federal judge stopped him on Saturday.

White House officials told CBS News last week that 137 of those Venezuelans were expelled under the Alien Enemies Act.

Judge Boasberg has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from using a law that dates to 1798 called the Alien Enemies Act. And that has prompted some heated rhetoric from the administration.

That sentiment was echoed by the dissent on Friday, with Judge Cornelia Pillard backing her fellow Obama appointee in writing ...

Last week, a Donald Trump-appointed judge in Texas deemed the president’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act “unlawful.” Blocking further deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members ...

Former President Donald Trump says if reelected, he will invoke a centuries-old law to expedite the removal of undocumented immigrants. Can he? Here's what to know about the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

The White House says it is confident that all of those deported are violent gang members, but the administration has also conceded in legal filings that many do not have criminal records in the U ...

The U.S. deported hundreds of immigrants after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II, using the sweeping powers of a centuries-old wartime law to ...

The White House took all of it, claiming complete victory and starting the process of relying on the act again. Following the Supreme Court’s lead, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a series of ...

The Alien Friends Act expired in 1801, an anachronism from another, less civilized period of U.S. history, yet Alien Enemies remained and has been used in some of the country’s most shameful ...