Thursday, May 14, 2026

10K rulings: Courts' overwhelming rebuke of Trump's policies

A POLITICO analysis reveals judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked up while they face deportation proceedings.

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... Ten thousand losses.

That's the Trump administration's track record in court as federal judges grapple with the way ICE agents have swept through major U.S. cities and detained thousands of people in support of President Donald Trump's aggressive deportation agenda.

More than 10,000 times, judges have said those detentions, typically carried out with no opportunity for detainees to plead their case, were illegal. That's roughly 90 percent of all cases -- a staggering rejection of a core piece of Trump's immigration agenda. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-14 12:26 AM

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... The trend is clear from every angle.

The administration has lost nearly 10,400 of the cases that have been decided, and prevailed in about 1,200.

While some judges have heard more cases than others, the overwhelming majority of judges -- more than 425 -- have reached the same conclusion.

Even a majority of Trump-appointed judges have sided against the administration. ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-14 12:29 AM

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