Overview
- A federal appeals court in New York ruled the administration cannot detain long-term residents without bond and ordered hearings for those held.
- The opinion, written by Trump-appointed Judge Joseph F. Bianco, said the government's reading of the detention law defies the text.
- The policy treats people arrested in the interior as “applicants for admission” under a law long applied at the border, a legal fiction the court rejected.
- Appellate courts remain divided, with two circuits upholding the policy, three rejecting it, and one deadlocked, a split that invites Supreme Court review.
- MS NOW reports more than 10,000 lower-court rulings against the policy, even as dissents by Judges Eric Murphy and Barbara Lagoa outline arguments the high court could embrace.