The Sedition Act of 1798 ______.\

a. extended the waiting period for immigrants to become U.S. citizens

b. authorized the president to use executive order to expel or detain immigrants during times of war

c. criminalized written or spoken speech that was deemed "false, scandalous, and malicious" toward the U.S. government

d. barred foreign-born journalists from authoring opinion pieces in U.S. newspapers