President-elect Donald Trump often said during the 2024 presidential campaign that he plans to launch the nation’s ...

The act empowers presidents to apprehend and remove foreign nationals from countries that are at war with the United States.

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.

These “zombie laws,” as they’re called, are provisions that haven’t been enforced or invoked for decades but are somehow ...

It was a neck-snapping flashback to my college government and history courses in which the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, ...