Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn't stopped.

[SunSeeker]

Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal.

"It is appalling that the Government insists that this Court should redefine or completely disregard the current law as it is clearly written," U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston of West Virginia, an appointee of President George W. Bush, wrote last week, ordering the release of a Venezuelan detainee in the state.

Most of the rulings center on the Trump administration’s departure from a nearly three-decade-old interpretation of federal law that immigrants already living in the United States could be released on bond while they pursue their cases in immigration court.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/

[leftstreet]

1. DURec

[usonian]

2. A law that is not enforced is merely a suggestion.

to be ignored or even laughed at.

[patphil]

3. If it wasn't for the courts, we'd already be in a full-fledged dictatorship.

Even though the Trump administration ignores their rulings, the record is there for everyone to see. The law is the law, even when it's not being adhered to. They show the American public the extend and depth of the lawlessness of the Trump administration.

There will be a day of reckoning, and all those court decisions will be very useful in prosecuting the people who violated them.

[SunSeeker]

4. Agreed! 2029 is coming!