Ninth Circuit Maintains Block on Noncitizen Detention Orders

The Ninth Circuit has maintained its pause on two lower court orders that curbed the Trump administration’s power to detain noncitizens without bond hearings.

In an order Tuesday, judges Margaret McKeown, Carlos Bea, and Daniel Bress continued their stay on the orders, one of which declared that a nationwide class of detained noncitizens have the right to argue for their release and another throwing out a precedent that immigration courts relied on to deny those bond hearings.

The underlying questions are more appropriately considered as habeas corpus matters challenging the legality of noncitizens’ detention, the order says, meaning the ...