A federal judge has paused the Trump administration’s plans to lift protections from deportation for more than 600,000 Venezuelans, writing that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s decision

The podcaster, widely considered critical to Trump's victory in the 2024 election, challenged the president's deportation tactics.

Lawyers for Venezuelan migrants asked the justices to keep in place a pause on President Trump’s deportation plan, calling it “completely at odds” with limited wartime authority given by Congress.

A federal judge in Boston denied a request Tuesday to block the Trump administration's plan to end temporary protected status for Venuezuelans, noting that a judge in California had already halted the plan on Monday.

About 350,000 Venezuelans who sought refuge in the U.S. were set to lose their work permits and protection against deportation next week. A federal judge delayed that action.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday maintained the temporary block on the Trump administration's use of an 18th-century wartime law to swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members. The big picture: A divided DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that lower-court orders halting the use of the Alien Enemies Act stand as a legal battle testing the power of the executive versus the judiciary branches plays out.

Richard Stearns said a nationwide order from U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of Northern California also protects the plaintiffs in Massachusetts and a separate opinion from Stearns, a Boston federal judge,

The Justice Dept. invoked a state secrets privilege, refusing to give judge any more information about the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg, who has been assigned to President Trump’s Venezuelan deportation case, has now been assigned to the lawsuit about the Trump administration’s use of a