The two laws defined much of the legal framework for Cold War repression ... “foreign terrorists,” to invoke the Alien and ...

President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act ... Sedition Acts in 1798 under President John Adams and the Federalist-controlled Congress. At the time, the U.S. was anticipating a war ...

The U.S. was preparing for war. The newly built USS Constitution was ready to set sail for the Caribbean to protect American merchant ships from French privateers. The Sedition Act wouldn’t be ...

One hundred Wobblies were indicted under the Espionage and Sedition Acts, tried and convicted in ... Or consider the Red Scare at the dawn of the Cold War. Again, leaders of both parties supported ...