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On Friday, Judge Paula Xinis directed the Trump administration to return Abrego Garcia to the United States by 11:59 pm today. Judge Xinis subsequently denied the government's motion for a stay. The government on Saturday asked the Fourth Circuit to grant a stay pending appeal and an immediate administrative stay. Today, the government filed an application asking the Supreme Court to vacate the district court injunction and requested an immediate administrative stay. After the government filed the application, a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit denied the government’s motion for a stay pending appeal and immediate administrative stay. Chief Justice Roberts later today stayed the district court’s order. (District court order to return Garcia to the United States.) (Opinion accompanying the Friday order, and denying request for stay.) (Government request for a stay pending appeal and immediate administrative stay in the district court.) (Government emergency request in the Fourth Circuit for a stay pending appeal and immediate administrative stay.) (Plaintiffs’ opposition to government’s motion for a stay pending appeal.) (Fourth Circuit's denial of the government’s motion.) (Government’s application in the Supreme Court.) (Response to application in the Supreme Court.) (Chief Justice Roberts’s order.)
The Supreme Court on Friday voted five to four to stay a district court’s temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from canceling education-related grants. See prior Roundups, including most recently here, here, and here, for background on the case. (Order.) (SCOTUSBlog.)
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today voted seven to four to vacate the decision of a three-judge panel of the appeals court that stayed two district court orders barring the firings of two executive branch board members—Cathy Harris of the Merit Systems Protection Board and Gwynne Wilcox of the National Labor Relations Board. Six of the judges voted to deny the government’s request for a seven-day stay of the decision pending appeal. See background on the case in a prior Roundup. (Order.)
Judge Denise Casper (D.Mass.) on Friday transferred the case of Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student at Tufts who has been detained by immigration authorities, to the federal district court in Vermont. Judge Casper also denied the government’s motion to dismiss Ozturk’s habeas petition and extended the court’s order enjoining the government from removing Ozturk from the United States. (Order.)
The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging Trump’s new tariffs. The plaintiffs alleged, among other things, that Trump’s invocation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act violates the major questions and nondelegation doctrines. (Complaint.)
A three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today voted two to one to stay a district court order preventing DOGE from accessing data at the Departments of Education and Treasury and at the Office of Personnel Management. The appeals court voted eight to seven to deny initial full-court review of the district court decision. (Stay and denial of en banc review.)
Judge John McConnell (D.R.I.) on Friday found that a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) review process for disbursing federal funds to states violated the court’s order enjoining FEMA from pausing or freezing the disbursement of appropriated federal funds to the plaintiff states pursuant to an Office of Management and Budget directive. Judge McConnell ordered FEMA to cease the review process to comply with the court’s preliminary injunction. Judge McConnell today stayed his Friday order in light of the Supreme Court’s stay in the education case and a motion from the government for reconsideration. (Order.) (Government’s motion for reconsideration.) (Plaintiffs’ response to motion for reconsideration.) (The court’s stay.)
Judge Loren AliKhan (D.D.C.) on Friday enjoined the Trump administration from, among other actions, removing the president and chief executive officer of the Inter-American Foundation, Sara Aviel. The government appealed the order to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and filed a motion in the district court to stay the court’s order pending appeal. (Order.) (Opinion.) (Notice of appeal.) (Motion to stay.)
Judge Angel Kelley (D.Mass) on Friday converted her preliminary order enjoining the Trump administration from capping the amount of money research institutions could receive from the National Institutes of Health to cover “indirect costs” into a permanent injunction. See a prior Roundup for the preliminary injunction. (Judgment.)
President Trump on Friday announced that he would extend by 75 days the Saturday deadline for TikTok to make a deal to separate from ByteDance to avoid a ban in the United States. (Donald Trump, Truth Social.) (NYT.)
A Wall Street Journal poll found that 58 percent of registered voters think Trump “must comply with court rulings that limit his actions, even if he disagrees with those decisions,” but a majority also supports deportations of “suspected gang members even without a court hearing to determine whether they truly belong to a gang.” (WSJ.)
Samuel Bray analyzed the universal injunction issues in the birthright citizenship emergency applications pending before the Supreme Court. (Divided Argument.)
Bray also discussed a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, in which he testified, on a new bill that would bar judges from issuing universal injunctions and granting vacatur under the Administrative Procedure Act. (Divided Argument.)
Steve Vladeck wrote that although the stay in the education case was a “win” for the government, it didn’t affect the likely outcomes of the other five emergency applications pending before the court at the time. (One First.)
Vladeck also argued that the district court in the Abrego Garcia case has the authority to order the government to seek to return Garcia to the United States. (One First.)
Steven Calabresi argued that Trump’s tariffs violate the major questions doctrine, and that a court should put them on ice through a nationwide injunction. (The Volokh Conspiracy.)
Emergency Order Applications Involving the U.S. Government in the Supreme Court
Noem v. Abrego Garcia: Government filed application today to vacate the injunction entered by the district court. Garcia filed response to application today. Chief Justice Roberts stayed district court order today.
Trump v. J.G.G.: Government filed application on March 28 to vacate district court injunctions and issue administrative stay. Plaintiffs filed response to application on April 1. Government filed reply on April 2.
Office of Personnel Management v. American Federation of Government Employees: Government filed application on March 24 to stay district court injunction and issue administrative stay. Plaintiffs filed response to application on April 3. Government filed reply on April 4.
Trump v. Washington: Government filed application on March 13 to stay district court injunction. Plaintiffs filed response to application on April 4. Government filed reply today.
Trump v. New Jersey: Government filed application on March 13 to stay district court injunction. Plaintiffs filed response to application on April 4. Government filed reply today.
Trump v. CASA: Government filed application on March 13 to stay district court injunction. Plaintiffs filed response to application on April 4. Government filed reply today.