{"id":2568764,"date":"2026-02-11T12:58:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politico-judges-use-workarounds-to-bypass-pro-trump-rulings-on-immigration\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T13:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:01:49","slug":"politico-judges-use-workarounds-to-bypass-pro-trump-rulings-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politico-judges-use-workarounds-to-bypass-pro-trump-rulings-on-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Judges Use &#8216;Workarounds&#8217; To &#8216;Bypass&#8217; Pro-Trump Rulings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fpolitico-judges-use-workarounds-to-bypass-pro-trump-rulings-on-immigration%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=2568764&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>This piece argues that unelected, lower-court judges are seeking ways to circumvent higher court rulings they disagree with, portraying certain recent rulings on immigration detention as evidence of an activist judiciary and a push for judicial supremacy. It draws on Politico\u2019s reporting that a fifth Circuit panel allowed the Trump management to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-government-officials-worked-with-open-borders-activists-to-draft-sanctuary-law\/\" title=\"Maryland Government Officials Worked With Open Borders Activists To Draft Sanctuary Law\">detain illegal immigrants<\/a> without bond, highlighting the majority view that nonadmitted aliens apprehended in the U.S. are not eligible for bond and that past administrations did not lack authority to do more.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes that two Texas district judges\u2014Kathleen Cardone and David Briones\u2014tired to preserve due-process protections by invoking a \u201cliberty interest\u201d for noncitizens with considerable roots in the U.S., suggesting there is room to continue releasing some detainees on other constitutional grounds. It frames these developments as evidence of judges hunting for loopholes to override precedent,calling such actions a \u201cjudicial coup.\u201d The Federalist contrasts this with the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling that federal courts do not wield broad authority to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-moves-on-judicial-reforms-this-week-as-courts-halt-trumps-agenda-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Congress moves on judicial reforms this week as ...s halt Trump\u2019s agenda - Washington Examiner\">issue universal injunctions<\/a>, while acknowledging that loopholes remain. the piece also quotes prominent voices like Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett to support its view of a judiciary that seeks to assert supremacy over other branches. Brianna Lyman, the author, is introduced as an elections correspondent for The Federalist.  <\/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<div>\n<p>Unelected, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-ruling-in-deportation-case-is-too-little-too-late\/\" title=\"SCOTUS Ruling In Deportation Case Is Too Little Too Late\">inferior court judges<\/a> are looking at ways to launch a judicial coup against higher court rulings that they don&rsquo;t like, Politico reported Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Federal judges may have found a workaround to reject the Trump administration&rsquo;s mass detention policy after an appeals court backed the approach,&rdquo; Politico&rsquo;s Kyle Cheney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/10\/texas-immigration-detention-rulings-00774124?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Trump administration could continue to detain illegal aliens without bond, with Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones writing for the 2-1 majority that &ldquo;unadmitted aliens apprehended anywhere in the United States are ineligible for release on bond, regardless of how long they have resided inside the United States.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That prior Administrations decided to use less than their full enforcement authority under [the law] does not mean they lacked the authority to do more,&rdquo; Jones wrote. Under previous administrations, illegal aliens not detained at the border had been able to request a bond hearing, and, if they did not have a violent criminal history, they were often granted bond, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/federal-appeals-court-upholds-trump-mass-detention-policy-illegal-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But as Politico reported, two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stop-pretending-witness-testimony-doesnt-qualify-as-evidence-in-gop-voter-disenfranchisement-lawsuit\/\" title=\"Stop Pretending Witness Testimony Doesn\u2019t Qualify as \u201cEvidence... in GOP Voter Disenfranchisement Lawsuit\">federal district court judges<\/a> in Texas who are bound by the ruling said the decision &ldquo;left an opening for them to continue granting immigrants&rsquo; release on other grounds, primarily constitutional arguments against detaining people who have established roots in the U.S. without due process.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The judges reportedly believe that the Constitution permits a &ldquo;liberty interest&rdquo; to be accounted for. <\/p>\n<p>One of the judges, Kathleen Cardone, ruled in a Monday decision that despite the Fifth Circuit&rsquo;s recent decision, it &ldquo;has no bearing on this Court&rsquo;s determination of whether [the petitioner] is being detained in violation of his constitutional right to procedural due process.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The other judge, David Briones, made a similar <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172884560\/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172884560.8.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">finding<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Court reiterates its original holding that noncitizens who have &lsquo;established connections&rsquo; in the United States by virtue of living in the country for a substantial period acquire a liberty interest in being free from government detention without due process of law,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>But what Politico frames as a clever legal workaround is actually just <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >inferior court judges openly searching<\/a> for ways to ignore a precedent they dislike. When judges acknowledge they are bound by a high court ruling but then immediately search for theories to evade such ruling, they&rsquo;re making clear they are supporting a judicial coup. <\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has been plagued by an ongoing judicial coup by unelected, inferior, activist judges who believe in judicial supremacy. Judicial supremacy is the idea that the legislative and executive branches are not co-equal to the judicial branch, but rather, its subordinates. <\/p>\n<p>Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/13\/judge-ho-takes-a-sledgehammer-to-judicial-supremacy-and-its-elite-enablers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Ho<\/a> previously wrote that judges across the country are championing &ldquo;judicial supremacy.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What we&rsquo;re really seeing in the judiciary is not principle, but arrogance.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While the Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/27\/supreme-court-nukes-nationwide-injunctions-against-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">did rule<\/a> that unelected, inferior court judges do not have broad authority to issue universal injunctions, the court left gaping loopholes in the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[F]ederal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch; they resolve cases and controversies consistent with the authority Congress has given them. When a court concludes that the Executive Branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power, too,&rdquo; Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/24pdf\/24a884_8n59.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But, almost immediately after the ruling, an Obama-appointed district judge <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/03\/judge-blocks-another-trump-order-proving-alito-was-right-about-loopholes-in-scotus-injunction-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruled<\/a> that Trump exceeded his authority when he issued an executive order on Jan. 20 prohibiting illegal aliens who &ldquo;engaged in the invasion across the southern border&rdquo; from seeking asylum or withholding of removal. The judge granted a certified class status, allowing the lawsuit against the administration to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>The judges highlighted by Politico are not outliers. In fact, they are emblematic of an activist judiciary that defies constitutional limits. When inferior court judges hunt and exploit loopholes to override higher court rulings, they are not safeguarding liberty. Rather, they are asserting supremacy over other branches of government.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unelected lower courts seek to overturn higher rulings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2568765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/26682691294_949fdedf18_h-e1770828590574.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[26366,4151,5894,19454,73595],"class_list":["post-2568764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-bypass","tag-judiciary","tag-politics","tag-rulings","tag-workarounds"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/26682691294_949fdedf18_h-e1770828590574.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568764","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568768,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568764\/revisions\/2568768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2568765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}