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The majority of a three-judge Seventh Circuit panel affirmed a district court’s Oct. 7 extension of a 2022 consent decree limiting ICE’s use of warrantless immigration arrests in the Chicago field office and affirmed in part and reversed in part the court’s Nov. 13 order requiring the release of detainees arrested in violation of the consent decree or whose arrests “potentially” violated 8 U.S.C. § 1357(a)(2). On the issue of whether immigrants arrested without warrants are categorically subject to mandatory detention without bond hearings, Judge John Z. Lee rejected the Trump administration’s position, Judge Thomas Kirsch endorsed it, and Judge Doris Pryor declined to reach the merits of the question. (Opinion.) (Politico.)
Judge Melissa DuBose (D.R.I.) said on Tuesday that she would refer Justice Department lawyer Kevin M. Bolan for possible disciplinary proceedings after he acknowledged withholding information about an ICE detainee’s alleged criminal history in the Dominican Republic. (NYT.) See yesterday’s Roundup for background.
A federal grand jury in D.C. on Tuesday indicted Cole Tomas Allen, the man accused of storming a security checkpoint outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with a shotgun, on four counts. He is charged with attempted assassination of President Trump and other firearms offenses. (Indictment.) (WaPo.)
President Trump on Tuesday said that he has paused Project Freedom, the U.S. effort to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz, to see if the United States and Iran can finalize a “Complete and Final Agreement” to end the war. (Truth Social.) (CBS.)
The Commerce Department on Tuesday announced agreements with Google, Microsoft, and xAI to provide the government with prerelease access to frontier AI models for security testing. (Press Release.) (WaPo.) Dean W. Ball and Kevin Frazier discussed how the Trump administration could pursue a voluntary prerelease AI testing regime despite likely lacking authority to mandate frontier model vetting. (Lawfare.)
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a civil rights lawsuit against the New York Times in the U.S. District for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday. The EEOC alleged that the Times had discriminated against a white male employee by denying him a promotion on the basis of race or sex. (Press Release.) (NYT.)
The Education Department has opened an investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s school in Massachusetts, to determine whether it violated Title IX by allowing transgender students to enroll. (Press Release.) (NYT.)
Senate Republicans included $1 billion for White House security upgrades tied to President Trump’s “East Wing Modernization Project” in the immigration bill released on Monday. The text states that the funds cannot be used for “non-security elements” of the project. (WaPo.)
U.S. Southern Command announced on Tuesday that it had struck another alleged drug vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing three people. (X.) (NYT.)
The Wall Street Journal reports that over the weekend, President Trump “upbraided Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary for not moving quickly enough to approve flavored vapes and nicotine products.” (WSJ.)
Tess Bridgeman and Brian Finucacane argued that the Trump administration’s claim that the War Powers Resolution’s 60-day clock stopped because of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire “is even more unconvincing than attempts by President Donald Trump’s predecessors to circumvent the 60-day clock.” (Just Security.)
George Packer examined how venture capitalist and former White House AI and crypto adviser David Sacks helped align Silicon Valley’s “tech right” with the Trump administration while advancing deregulatory policies on AI and cryptocurrency. (The Atlantic.)
Pending Interim Order Applications Involving the U.S. Government in the Supreme Court
Blanche v. Perlmutter: The government filed an emergency application on October 27 requesting the Supreme Court to stay a district court interlocutory injunction that temporarily reinstated Shira Perlmutter to her role as Register of Copyrights while litigation over her removal continues. Chief Justice Roberts formally set a deadline of November 10 for a response to the application. Perlmutter submitted a response on November 10. Blanche submitted a reply on November 12. The Court deferred the application for stay on November 28 pending the Court’s decisions in Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook.
Trump v. Cook: The government filed an emergency application on September 18 requesting the Supreme Court to stay a preliminary injunction issued by a district court that blocked President Trump from removing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. Cook filed an opposition to the request on the same day. The Chief Justice formally set a deadline of September 25 for a response to the application. Cook filed a response on September 25. On October 1, the Court deferred action on the stay application pending oral argument in January 2026 and established a supplemental briefing schedule. Additional amicus briefs were filed on October 29. Both sides filed supplemental briefs on November 19 and the Court heard oral argument on Jan. 21, 2026.
Mullin v. Doe: The government filed an application on February 26 requesting the Supreme Court stay pending appeal of a preliminary injunction issued by a district court preliminarily enjoining then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem from terminating temporary protected status designation for Syria. The government asked the Court to construe the application as a petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment and grant the petition. On March 16, the Court consolidated the case with a challenge to the Department of Homeland Security’s termination of Temporary Protected Status designations for Haiti and granted certiorari before judgment of the consolidated cases while deferring action on the government’s request for a stay.
Trump v. Miot: The government filed an application on March 11 requesting the Supreme Court to stay a lower court order postponing then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s decision to terminate temporary protected status designation for Haiti. The government also asked the Court to treat the application as a petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment and grant the petition. On March 16, the Court consolidated the case with Mullin v. Doe.