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Judge John McConnell, Jr. (D.R.I.) questioned the national-security justification for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’s pause on adjudicating immigration benefit applications from individuals from 39 countries during a stay hearing on Wednesday. (Politico.) The judge had vacated the policies implementing the pause in early June. For background, see a prior Roundup.
The county attorney and sheriff of Ramsey County, Minnesota, sued the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday in the District of Minnesota, seeking the “evidence necessary to investigate” a Jan. 2026 incident in which masked and armed individuals believed to be federal agents allegedly broke into a U.S. citizen’s home, handcuffed him, forced him outside without sufficient clothing and into a vehicle, and interrogated him for an hour. (Complaint.)
The administration reportedly fired Roger Rogoff 54 minutes after judges in the Western District of Washington appointed him to be the district’s U.S. attorney. Rogoff is reportedly considering whether to challenge his removal. (NYT.)
The House Budget Committee announced Wednesday that it will pursue a third reconciliation bill, which will, among other things, respond to the administration’s request for additional Pentagon funding. (Press Release.) (NYT.)
The president reportedly reversed ICE’s policy suspending vehicle traffic stops because of public and private pushback he received from right-wing media figures. (Atlantic.) For background on the policy and its reversal, see a prior Roundup.
Kristy Parker and Grant Tudor argued the Justice Department’s indictments of James Comey and the Southern Poverty Law Center were not crafted to succeed, but to please the president and help Todd Blanche audition for the role of attorney general. (Just Security.)
Jules Torti argued that while Justice Gorsuch’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Slaughter calls for increased judicial review of Congress’s efforts to structure the executive branch, the opinion counterintuitively makes “a compelling case for increased congressional control” of the federal bureaucracy. (Just Security.)