“The new Sedition Act Executive Order,” Justice Roberts said, “excludes jury trial, allows much greater penalties, including being tossed from an airplane over international waters.” ...

Retropolis 10 fascinating presidential pardons, from bootleggers to traitors Presidents have used the power to try and unite a divided nation or simply to smite political enemies.

In fact, the Alien Enemies Act was part of a suite of laws known as the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by the Federalists which included the Alien Friends Act, which allowed the president to expel ...

In his first book, Thomas Jefferson and the Kentucky Constitution, focuses on how the nation's founding father Thomas Jefferson had a major influence on Kentucky's constitution of 1792.

When Thomas Jefferson succeeded Adams in 1801, he repealed the other three parts of the Alien and Sedition Acts or let them expire, but the Alien Enemies Act remained on the books.

The Alien and Sedition Acts was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t actually happen.

Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei from NPR's Throughline talk with Daniel Tichenor, a professor of political science at the University of Oregon, about the origins of the Alien Enemies Act.

I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, what she made of the Adams references.

When Jefferson won the presidency and the anti-federalists won control of Congress, the Federalists repealed three of the four Alien and Sedition Acts on the eve of their departure from ...

The populist backlash against the Alien and Sedition Acts helped propel Jefferson and Democratic-Republicans to victory in the 1800 presidential election.

The populist backlash against the Alien and Sedition Acts helped propel Jefferson and Democratic-Republicans to victory in the 1800 presidential election.