U.S. appeals court upholds Trump administration's immigration detention policy
Reuters reports that a federal appeals court yesterday upheld the Trump administration's policy of placing people arrested in its immigration crackdown in mandatory detention without an opportunity to be released on bond.
The decision was authored by Judge Edith H. Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Judge Dana Douglas dissented. It is "the first time an appeals court had upheld the policy and came despite hundreds of lower-court judges nationally declaring it unlawful."
Steve Vladeck comments on the ruling here.
