As Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong’s ruling rippled across the region, the federal government requested an immediate stay, pending appeal. Here’s what you need to know.

The administration has declared undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings. The plan is to fill ICE detention facilities, not review cases.

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement practices.

James A. Kaddo, who stepped down from the bench at 90, attributed his offensive comments to “rare flare-ups” necessary to maintain control of his courtroom.

The Trump administration has filed court papers seeking a stay of a Los Angeles federal judge’s orders barring federal agents from detain people without reasonable suspicion beyond their race, ethnicity or occupation.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pushed back against the latest ruling by a federal judge against the Trump administration, vowing that it will be appealed. The ruling orders the administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in seven California counties.

The DOJ fired 15 immigration judges last week despite a huge backlog of immigration cases. Immigration advocates are worried this will reduce people's access to due process.

The Trump administration on Monday asked a federal appeals court to pause a sweeping order from a California judge that required officials to stop making immigration arrests without probable cause in the southern part of the state.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday will consider the nomination of Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official, to serve as a federal circuit judge.

“That runs the gamut from making arrests, investigating crimes, and doing police work, all the way up to guarding prisoners or running courts,” says Daniel Maurer, an Army JAG until 2024 who also taught law at West Point and at the Judge Advocate General’s School in Virginia.