President-elect Donald Trump is set to revive a range of long-standing laws and legal principles as he outlines his agenda for the first year, with a significant focus on issues such as border security and birthright citizenship. He is counting on historical precedents to support his initiatives amid anticipated legal challenges that may reach the Supreme Court.

Trump has expressed his plans to utilize a little-known law from 1798, which has a controversial history, to expedite deportations. Additionally, he has suggested he might invoke a law stemming from the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion to mobilize military forces within the United States.

Immigration isn’t the only area of policy being explored; some of Trump’s supporters, like Vice President-elect JD Vance, are pushing for the enforcement of an 1873 chastity law that could prohibit the mailing of abortion medications.

Trump portrays these legal frameworks as a return to a more assertive era in American governance. He indicates that he may employ the powers enacted by former Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and others to confront what he describes as an “enemy from within” and to facilitate large-scale deportations of undocumented immigrants.

“Imagine that: We had to go back to 1798,” Trump remarked to a conservative audience in Georgia just days before the November election, asserting that the laws from that time were effective.

However, some of the authorities he aims to invoke have complicated pasts, and their implementation could lead to disputes with the current 6-3 conservative Supreme Court, which is being closely observed for its willingness to act as a check on the new administration.

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