The Alien and Sedition Acts were a series of four laws passed by the U.S. Congress in 1798 during the administration of President John Adams amid widespread fear that a foreign war against France was ...

John Adams called the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 "war measures." To opponents, they were unconstitutional and indefensible. To supporters, they protected the very foundations of the nation.

In 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts with the support of the Adams Administration. The Alien Act granted the President unilateral authority to deport non-citizens who were subjects of ...

Views Senior Staff Writer Mark Butler explores an American history of censorship and where banned books enter that ...

The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the tenuous period following the Revolutionary War. Japanese Americans deal with ...

At the time, America was threatened by war with France, and Congress was attempting to pass laws that would give more authority to the federal government, and the president in particular, to deal with ...

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 gang ...

President-elect Donald Trump often said during the 2024 presidential campaign that he plans to launch the nation’s largest-ever mass deportation operation in his second term. Trump has pledged to ...