Supreme Court Hands DOJ an Initial Win in Dispute Over Immigration Judges’ Speech

A federal appeals court previously injected issues into the case that were not argued in court, the justices said.

The Supreme Court in Washington on May 21, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

The U.S. Supreme Court on May 26 sided with the Trump administration in a lawsuit federal immigration judges brought that challenges a federal government policy limiting the judges’ public statements about their jobs.

The nation’s highest court ruled that a federal appeals court violated an important legal principle by ruling on legal issues that the parties themselves had not presented.