No Bond, No Trial: Third Circuit Blocks Trump's Mandatory ICE Detention, Forcing a Supreme Court Reckoning

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit dealt the Trump administration its most significant legal blow on immigration detention this year, ruling 2-1 on Friday that immigrants who entered the United States years ago cannot be automatically jailed without bond hearings under a border statute the government has aggressively weaponized since 2025. The Philadelphia-based court found that holding Gabriel Antonio Buele Morocho, an Ecuadorian who arrived in 2001, and...