Trump Administration Facing Headwinds in the Courts
From Documented:
"ICE’s mandatory detention policy notched its eighth straight loss last Friday in federal appeals court, POLITICO writes (and ACLU celebrates), with a divided panel ruling that individuals in detention with longtime ties to the United States are entitled to bond hearings.
That’s just one of several other important legal updates from the past week, as the number of lawsuits brought against the Trump administration approaches 1,000, according to Just Security’s litigation tracker, with about 20% (196) of those cases related to immigration.
Several more blows were delivered to President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda on Friday, with a federal judge vacating three federal policies that had been keeping visa applications in limbo, as Courthouse News Service reports. In a separate case, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot deport students over criticism of Israel, marking a win for student newspaper The Stanford Daily, which filed the free speech suit in early August following the targeting of pro-Palestinian students in school’s across the US, including Columbia University’s Mahmoud Khalil.
Meanwhile, the DOJ has ramped up denaturalization lawsuits, with at least 50 filed in July, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. That’s up from 18 in June — and just eight filed in all of 2025."
