Immediately after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed an “invasion” and invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Under that law ...

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Designating himself “a wartime president,” Trump likened the country’s COVID-19 ... the United States’ obsession with war has meant “imagining many things in terms of it ...

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One of President Trump’s preferred analogies as the coronavirus pandemic spread in the United States earlier this spring was to present efforts to contain it as a war. “A number of people have ...

“In wartime, it is for the President alone to decide what methods to use to best prevail against the enemy,” wrote the memo’s author, John Yoo, then a Justice Department lawyer.

The 1798 law gives the president sweeping authority to remove from the United States citizens of foreign countries whom he defines as “alien enemies,” in cases of war or invasion.

Will last week compared the 2024 elections to the 1940 elections, when the United States hadn’t yet formally declared war on Imperial Japan, Hitler’s Germany, or Mussolini’s Italy.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Immediately after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed an “invasion” and invoked the ...