9 ways federal judges are 'throwing up increasingly fierce resistance' to Trump

02 May

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he addresses the media on board Air Force One on the way to West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 13, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard

Despite the high-profile deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia dominating the news cycle, President Donald Trump’s push to remove immigrants and legal residents is getting overwhelmingly blocked by judges, reports Politico.

“A POLITICO review of hundreds of lawsuits reveals that despite Trump’s aggressive border crackdown, he’s been largely stymied on the other planks of his immigration agenda,” Politico reports. “Courts are throwing up increasingly fierce resistance to his efforts to swiftly detain and deport migrants living in the United States. And his attempts to strip legal status from hundreds of thousands of immigrants lawfully in the country have so far failed.

The conservative Supreme Court has halted Trump’s arguably rushed deportations three times, and justices have had to remind the administration to provide “reasonable” due process to people he has accused of being “alien enemies” often without clear evidence. District and appellate court judges are also forming a growing legion of bad responses to administration tactics.

Politico reports Trump’s use of war powers to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members is “a path to perfect lawlessness,” according to one judge, while another judge declared the administration’s detention of students with anti-Israel views comparable to the “Red Scare and McCarthyism.” Another described the administration’s denial of due process as on the road to “persecution, torture, and death.”

“The courts are recognizing it for what it is,” said Elizabeth Goitein, a civil liberties and national security expert with the Brennan Center for Justice.

The flurry of legal pushback is leaving the administration to disparage judges as “rogue” and “radical,” and to demand their impeachment.

Politico compiled a list of nine Trump policies courts have stymied within the last few weeks. Along with the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, these include summary deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, deportations to countries other than a migrant’s country of origin, temporary protected status of people fleeing humanitarian crises, and the Mahmoud Khalil, Badar Khan Suri, Mohsen Mahdawi and Rumeysa Ozturk cases. Other instances of court complications include Trump’s crusade on full-time foreign students, warrantless arrests in California, refugee admissions and the administration’s attempts to redefine birthright citizenship.

Read the details of all nine at this link.

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