The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals barred the Trump administration from indefinitely detaining some asylum claimants while handing the administration a partial victory in the same ruling by striking down as unreasonable the fast-track processing requirements imposed by a lower court.
In an opinion released July 22, a three-judge panel of the circuit court struck down part of a July 2 ruling by Seattle-based U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman, a Clinton appointee, who critics say effectively rewrote a 1996 law requiring the detention of asylum claimants, in a still-ongoing case known as Padilla v. ICE.
