Judge blasts Trump admin for ignoring court rulings and demands release for immigrant

Source: Law & Crime

Feb 20th, 2026, 7:18 am


A federal judge in New Jersey took the Trump administration to task for directly violating a court order in a case in which an Indian immigrant was transferred to another lockup facility in another state.

The six-page memorandum opinion and order is of a piece with an almost daily drip of district court judges shutting down controversial efforts to reshape how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) classifies immigrants in order to detain them.

The petitioner, Jagpreet Jagpreet Singh, won habeas corpus release by convincing U.S. District Judge Christine P. O'Hearn, a Joe Biden appointee, that his detention was "blatantly unlawful from the start."

As in many similar cases, the public record is scant because petitions for the writ of habeas corpus are frequently filed under seal.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/ice-has-repeatedly-violated-judicial-orders-judge-blasts-trump-admin-for-ignoring-court-rulings-and-demands-release-for-immigrant-whose-detention-was-blatantly-unlawful/

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Full headline: 'ICE has repeatedly violated judicial orders': Judge blasts Trump admin for ignoring court rulings and demands release for immigrant whose detention was 'blatantly unlawful'

Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.591878/gov.uscourts.njd.591878.8.0.pdf

This is another of several recent instances where the judge had had enough. This case was in NJ.

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