The Trump administration scored another legal win Monday as D.C. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich denied the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction in a case challenging the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sharing of data with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for immigration enforcement purposes.
The order by U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich came amid a lawsuit by Centro de Trabajadores Unidos, an immigrant-rights aid group, against Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
“At its core, this case presents a narrow legal issue: Does the Memorandum of Understanding between the IRS and DHS violate the Internal Revenue Code? It does not,” Friedrich wrote in his order.
(Note: Friedrich, a Trump appointee, is a woman, so that would be her order.)
The order itself is relatively brief (16 pages) and direct. In it, Friedrich notes that there’s…
