Federal courts across 35 states — including more than 20 Trump-appointed judges — say the administration’s sweeping detention order likely violates due-process rights as emergency lawsuits skyrocket past 700 cases.
A rapidly expanding coalition of federal judges across the country — now totaling more than 220 — has formally rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to implement a sweeping new mass-detention policy aimed at immigrants in deportation proceedings. The wave of rulings represents one of the broadest and most bipartisan judicial rebukes of a federal immigration initiative in decades.
The rulings, which span over 700 emergency cases, increasingly highlight the judiciary’s frustration with what courts describe as an unlawful, unprecedented effort by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain nearly all noncitizens facing removal from the United States. And in a striking development, at least 23 of the judges opposing the policy were appointed by former President Donald Trump himself.
