[dragonwriter]

> Those legislation mainly affected people who weren't US citizens, though.

Certainly the Sedition Act's repression of free speech was not restricted to, nor primarily targeting, non-citizens; it principally targeted domestic dissent. (The first prosecution under that act -- or any of the Alien and Sedition Acts -- was of an opposition-party Congressman for writings critical of the administration.)

Not that "worst for American citizens" was the original claim, anyway.