Overview
- U.S. District Judge Mae D’Agostino dismissed the DOJ’s challenge to New York’s Protect Our Courts Act, holding the state’s noncooperation is protected by the Tenth Amendment.
- The ruling also upheld two Cuomo-era executive orders limiting state disclosures to ICE and barring arrests in state-run buildings without a judicial warrant.
- The 2020 law bars civil immigration arrests of people traveling to, attending, or leaving state and local court proceedings without a judicial order, and it does not apply to federal or immigration courts.
- A Seventh Circuit panel temporarily stayed a broad Chicago injunction restricting federal agents’ use of force, calling it overbroad and signaling a fast-track review for a more tailored order.
- Chief Judge James Boasberg said he will promptly take sworn testimony in a revived contempt inquiry into March deportation flights to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, over DOJ objections.