{"id":2467930,"date":"2025-07-28T19:54:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appeals-panel-wary-of-dojs-bid-to-lift-immigration-raid-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T19:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:55:45","slug":"appeals-panel-wary-of-dojs-bid-to-lift-immigration-raid-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appeals-panel-wary-of-dojs-bid-to-lift-immigration-raid-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals panel wary of DOJ&#8217;s bid to lift immigration raid restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fappeals-panel-wary-of-dojs-bid-to-lift-immigration-raid-restrictions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2467930&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The justice Department (DOJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-hhs-pick-xavier-becerra-rejected-request-to-bring-humanitarian-aid-on-1996-cuba-trip-to-meet-castro-report\/\" title=\"... HHS Pick Xavier Becerra Rejected Request To Bring Humanitarian Aid On 1996 Cuba Trip To Meet Castro: Report\">faced intense questioning<\/a> from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of appeals for the Ninth Circuit regarding its attempt to pause a federal district court injunction that restricts immigration raids in Los Angeles. the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >injunction prohibits federal officers<\/a> from using factors such as race, language, location, or job alone as reasons to investigate someone&#8217;s immigration status. DOJ lawyer Jacob Roth argued that thes factors are always considered alongside additional context and that the injunction is flawed and overly broad. However, the appeals judges, including appointees of Presidents Clinton and Biden, were skeptical of the DOJ&#8217;s arguments. ACLU attorney Mohammad Tajsar, representing the challengers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-hints-at-shifting-stance-on-immigration-due-to-impact-on-farmers-changes-are-coming\/\" title=\"Trump Hints at Shifting Stance on Immigration Due to Impact on Farmers: &#039;Changes Are Coming&#039;\">immigration enforcement tactics<\/a>, defended the injunction by highlighting ongoing fear and harm in affected communities, arguing there is no emergency to justify lifting the restrictions. The appeals court did not give a timeline for its decision but indicated it would rule promptly,with the possibility of the DOJ appealing to the Supreme Court if necessary.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Appeals panel skeptical of DOJ&rsquo;s bid to lift court&rsquo;s immigration raid restrictions<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2183630\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/justice-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Justice Department\">Justice Department<\/a> was grilled by an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/appeals-courts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Justice Department\">appeals court<\/a> panel Monday over its bid to pause restrictions on immigration raids in Los Angeles that were put in place by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3470774\/doj-accuses-court-ignoring-supreme-court-decision-immigration-raid-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"federal district court order\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-days-before-midterms-doj-is-still-refusing-to-release-bidens-plan-to-federalize-local-elections\/\" title=\"5 Days Before Midterms, ... Is Still Refusing To Release ...\u2019s Plan To Federalize Local Elections\">federal district court order<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, made up of Judges Ronald Gould, Marsha Berzon, and Jennifer Sung &mdash; two appointees of former President Bill Clinton and one appointee of former President Joe Biden &mdash; expressed skepticism over the DOJ&rsquo;s arguments for a stay pending appeal of the lower court&rsquo;s order.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/3484574\/democrats-try-to-revive-epstein-scandal-as-deflection-from-russia-scandal-byron-york\/\">Democrats try to revive Epstein scandal as deflection from Russia scandal: Byron York<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3484316\/ken-paxton-sues-ny-clerk-taylor-bruckfor-texas-judgment-abortion-pills\/\">Ken Paxton sues NY clerk to enforce Texas judgment over telehealth abortion pill prescription<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3483824\/trump-rupert-murdoch-quick-deposition-wsj-defamation-lawsuit\/\">Trump lawyers want quick deposition of Rupert Murdoch in WSJ defamation lawsuit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The Justice Department asked the appeals court panel to stay an injunction from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3469385\/judge-orders-trump-administration-halt-immigration-stops-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"blocked\">blocked<\/a> federal immigration officers from relying on apparent race, language spoken, location, or job as sole reasons to inquire about a person&rsquo;s immigration status.<\/p>\n<p>DOJ lawyer Jacob Roth faced intense scrutiny from the panel during the nearly 90-minute hearing. The questioning largely stemmed from Judges Berzon and Sung about how the scope of the lower court&rsquo;s injunction limits immigration enforcement and what the Justice Department alleges was unlawful about the lower court&rsquo;s ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ lawyer argued that suspicion for conducting immigration enforcement using one of the four factors restricted by the injunction always comes with additional context, and that cases should not be restricted with a blanket formula for Fourth Amendment concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The locations are always going to be informed by some context or background or experience or surveillance or intelligence or experience in the field, they&rsquo;re going to be picked for some reason,&rdquo; Roth said during the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ lawyer called the lower court&rsquo;s injunction &ldquo;fundamentally flawed on multiple levels&rdquo; and argued that the district court did not find the suing parties had a &ldquo;real immediate threat of a suspicionless stop&rdquo; sufficient to grant the injunction.<\/p>\n<p>Roth was sharply questioned by the skeptical panel for the majority of the hearing, but the lawyer representing the people suing the Trump administration over immigration operation tactics did present his argument to the judges.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Tajsar, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-bill-seeks-to-ban-police-offers-who-have-expressed-religious-or-conservative-views\/\" title=\"California Bill Seeks To Ban Police Offers Who Have Expressed Religious Or Conservative Views\">senior staff attorney<\/a> at the ACLU of Southern California who represented the people challenging immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, argued the appeals court should uphold the injunction. <\/p>\n<p>Tajsar pointed to comments by Department of Homeland Security officials stating that immigration enforcement will continue as evidence that it is not an emergency for the appeals court to pause the lower court&rsquo;s injunction.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3482714\/courts-sweeping-injunctions-supreme-court-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"COURTS STILL FINDING WAYS TO ISSUE SWEEPING INJUNCTIONS MONTH AFTER SUPREME COURT RULING\">COURTS STILL FINDING WAYS TO ISSUE SWEEPING INJUNCTIONS MONTH AFTER SUPREME COURT RULING<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not clear why we&rsquo;re on an emergency sort of posture here. The problem is, for them, nothing will change, but for us, everything will change,&rdquo; Tajsar said. &ldquo;There are more than there are more than a dozen cities and counties who have come into this court and said that there&rsquo;s an extraordinary amount of fear and trepidation and injury that&rsquo;s happened throughout Southern California.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court panel did not offer a timeline for a decision on the motion for stay at the conclusion of the hearing, but said it would rule quickly. If the appeals court declines to grant the Trump administration&rsquo;s stay of the order, the Justice Department could seek an appeal to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2183630\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2183630\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appeals panel doubts DOJ&#8217;s request to ease immigration raid limits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2467931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/la-immigration-enforcement-operations-file-photo-july-2025.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[60128,7076,60131,60129,60130],"class_list":["post-2467930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-appeals-panel","tag-doj","tag-government-enforcement","tag-immigration-raid","tag-legal-restrictions"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/la-immigration-enforcement-operations-file-photo-july-2025.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467934,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467930\/revisions\/2467934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2467931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}