DOJ Warns of ‘Chaos’ if Orders on Immigrant Detention Continue

March 30, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC

Courts will be thrown into “chaos,” a Trump administration attorney claimed Monday, if the Ninth Circuit doesn’t continue to pause orders from a California federal judge who said a nationwide class of detained immigrants have the right to a bond hearing.

Those orders were “a flare-up of judicial immodesty,” Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign said during oral arguments Monday.

The government wants the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to maintain its pause pending appeal on two orders from Judge Sunshine Sykes of the US District Court for the Central District of California. One declared the right ...

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