Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump Admin Asylum and Immigration Restrictions

In a 135-page ruling, a federal judge dismantled a series of Trump administration immigration restrictions that had left millions of people in legal suspension — unable to work, to plan, or to belong — based solely on the country where they were born. Judge John J. McConnell Jr. found not merely procedural overreach, but something older and more troubling: the deliberate encoding of bias into bureaucratic policy. The decision reaffirms what democratic legal traditions have long insisted upon — that national origin cannot serve as a quiet instrument of exclusion — though the road ahead through