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The incoming president has said he intends to use an obscure 1798 law with a sordid backstory to speed ... We had to go back to 1798,” Trump told a ... a Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride ...
After taking office, Trump ordered military and immigration officials to be ready by Feb. 3 to implement the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, last used to justify internment camps for people of Japanese, Germa
Trump's proposal relies on the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which formed part of the Alien and Sedition Acts and were established during the presidency of John Adams.
Alien Friends Act of 1798. The Alien and Sedition Acts were a set of four laws enacted in 1798 that applied restrictions to immigration and speech in the United States. [a] The Naturalization Act of 1798 increased the requirements to seek citizenship, the Alien Friends Act of 1798 allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gave the president ...
On July 2, 1798, the bill was amended and engrossed and the next day was read the third time, passed and sent to the Senate for concurrence. [2] [3] On July 3, 1798, the Senate received the bill from the House and read it the first and second time. [4] On July 6, 1798, the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 18 ayes and 4 nays. [5]
Like the Naturalization Acts of 1790 and 1795, the 1798 act also restricted citizenship to "free white persons". The act is the first to maintain records of immigration and residence, and provided certificates of residence for white immigrant aliens, for the purpose of establishing the date of arrival for subsequent qualification for citizenship.
Bull, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 386 (1798), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided four important points of constitutional law. First, the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution applies to criminal laws that have at least one of four effects:
Some of Donald Trump's allies are assembling proposals to curtail the Justice Department's independence and turn the nation's top law enforcement body into an attack dog for conservative causes ...