A federal appeals court has denied the Trump administration's effort to rescind temporary protections for 350,000 Venezuelan migrants. The San Francisco-based 9th Circuit upheld a lower-court decision stopping Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from ending the migrants' protected status,

The request filed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit hinges largely on the meaning of the word “facilitate,” which Judge Paula Xinis and the Justice Department have disagreed on in a case with far-reaching implications.

Probable cause exists to prosecute members of the Trump administration for criminal contempt for continuing deportation flights to El Salvador on March 15, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled.