16 entries in the ledger
U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher of Maryland issued a memorandum opinion Friday granting a temporary restraining order that requires the government to facilitate the return of a man identified as John Doe, who...
A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 on July 30, 2026 against the Trump administration's reading of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the basis for ICE denying bond hearings to...
The Department of Homeland Security announced an interim final rule on July 27, 2026 that allows U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to refer certain affirmative asylum applications to immigration judges without...
In a brief July 21, 2026 order, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stayed three Texas district-court rulings that had freed immigrants, including men with no criminal record, held under the administration's...
On July 15, 2026, the Justice Department filed the first application in the 30-year history of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, a five-judge tribunal Congress created in 1996 for cases in which ordinary immigration...
On July 2, 2026, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled 2-1 that the federal government cannot hold longtime undocumented residents for more than 90 days without offering a bond...
A federal appeals court has ordered the Trump administration to rehire 19 career intelligence officers at the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence who were fired after temporary assignments working...
On June 23, 2026, a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit allowed the Trump administration to resume applying "expedited removal" - fast-track deportation without a hearing before an...
On February 25, 2026, U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts ruled that the Trump administration's policy of deporting migrants to "third countries" - nations that are neither their home country nor listed...
After Kilmar Abrego Garcia was returned to the United States, immigration officials pursued his removal to Liberia, a country with which he had no established personal or family connection. This followed his earlier...