About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

A federal judge has found the extreme heat in Texas prisons that don't have air conditioning is "plainly unconstitutional."

President Donald Trump, who promised "the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America," has expelled thousands of migrants from the U.S. and ignited a potentially bitter clash between his administration and the federal judiciary.

A federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to reinstate nearly 25,000 fired government employees said on Wednesday that he could narrow his ruling to workers based in Washington, D.C., and the 19 mostly Democratic-led states that sued over the mass firings.

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday refused to pause a judge's ruling requiring the administration of President Donald Trump to reinstate more than 17,000 workers at six agencies who lost their jobs as part of Trump's purge of the federal workforce.

An appeals court in California has refused to halt a judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to rehire thousands of federal workers who were let go in mass firings. A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel turned back an emergency motion late Wednesday to pause the order from U.