An appellate court has temporarily paused a lower court order that could have soon released hundreds of people in Immigration and Customs and Enforcement custody.
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday granted the Trump administration’s motion to pause the order as the appeal proceeds. The brief order gave no explanation for the decision but scheduled oral arguments on the matter for Dec. 2.
The decision comes after the district court judge declined the government’s request that he stay his own rulings.
Judge Jeffrey Cummings of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ...
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