NEW: Here’s our searchable list of federal judges who have ruled on the legality of ICE’s mass detention policy — with links to key decisions by each. At least 380 district judges have rejected it in ~3,800 cases. 31 have upheld ICE’s approach ~180 times
The rulings keep flooding in. Here's Judge Leichty, a Trump appointee from Indiana, ruling today that a "mandatory" detention was illegal.
And here's Judge William Martinez in Colorado. Man in U.S. for 27 years, no criminal record, two U.S. citizen kids. Detained.
And here's Judge Saylor, a Massachusetts-based George W. Bush appointee, ordering a bond hearing for an Ecuadorian national who he says was detained unlawfully.
Judge William Stickman IV, a Trump appointee in Pennsylvania, becomes the latest to reject the Trump administraiton (and 5th Circuit's) view of ICE's mandatory detention policy.
With an extended metaphor, Judge Gail Weilheimer, a Biden appointee, in Pennsylvania, says ICE's mandatory detention tactics amount to "gamesmanship" in which the administration changes the rules on immigrants seeking legal status.
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