10,000 Losses: The Courts’ Stunning Rebuke of Trump’s Immigration Agenda

Wednesday, June 17, 2026 | 1PM ET

Federal district judges have ruled against the Trump administration more than 10,000 times in under a year in cases involving immigration detention, mostly stemming from an unprecedented policy shift by ICE.

POLITICO’s Kyle Cheney is tracking tens of thousands of these detention cases. His reporting has documented judges’ growing anger with the Trump administration; the ways ICE defies judges’ rulings; the divide among Trump-appointed judges and even the window these cases have provided into U.S. foreign policy.

Please join Kyle for a subscriber briefing about his reporting and the courts’ overwhelming rebuke of a core Trump policy.