On Monday, a federal judge in the Western District of Washington issued an order setting forth a “compliance framework” for the Trump administration to follow in order to adhere to his previously entered preliminary injunction. That framework will require the administration to begin processing roughly 12,000 refugees by next Monday.
It’s the latest development in a series of back-and-forth court rulings and moves that have begun to seem a bit like a Ping-Pong match.
A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to immediately resettle some 12,000 refugees into the U.S. under a court order that partially blocks President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at halting the refugee admissions program.
U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead, a 2023 appointee of former President Joe Biden, issued the order despite the Trump administration saying…
