This case involves six individual plaintiffs, and Minneapolis, St. Paul and state officials have filed a separate lawsuit that seeks to end the ICE surge. Driving the news: U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez barred ICE agents from arresting or pepper spraying people for simply observing or criticizing the federal government's actions. The judge also ruled that safely following ICE vehicles does not on its own justify a traffic stop, protecting an increasingly common tactic used by Minnesotans to track raids in the Twin Cities.
(Bloomberg/Madlin Mekelburg) A federal judge said the Trump administration can move ahead with a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications, providing a setback for US technology companies that rely on hiring skilled foreign workers. US District Judge Beryl Howell said in a ruling Tuesday that President Donald Trump's effort to radically increase the cost of the popular visa is lawful.
In one of those cases, a judge lifted the hold on construction, ruling that a lack of a sound justification for the hold made it "the height of arbitrary and capricious," a legal standard that determines whether federal decision-making is acceptable under the Administrative Procedures Act. If this were a fictional story, that would be considered foreshadowing. With no indication of how long the comprehensive assessment would take, 17 states sued to lift the hold on permitting.
So we're making a determination now. Do we go to Chicago? Do we go to a place like New Orleans, where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that's become quite, you know, quite tough, quite bad.
Miller reacted to the news by posting an angry reaction to X/Twitter, writing: The ruling has just been issued. A communist judge in LA has ordered ICE to report directly to her and radical left NGOs not the president.
The situation at the southern border constitutes an invasion of America, and Trump suspended the physical entry of migrants and their ability to seek asylum until he decides it is over.
Trump's federalization of the California National Guard was ruled illegal, violating statutory authority and the Tenth Amendment, requiring immediate return of control to the governor.