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The five liberal courts that tied Trump’s hands before SCOTUS clipped their power

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Nearly all the universal injunctions blocking President Donald Trump’s agenda were issued by just five of the nation’s 94 federal district courts, a statistic that the administration said lays bare the Left’s strategy of lawfare.
Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi spoke at a news conference Friday just after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that district judges, the lowest-level jurists in the federal system, cannot impose nationwide injunctions. Bondi noted that out of 40 nationwide injunctions issued since Trump retook the White House, 35 came out of five districts perceived as liberal.
«Active liberal… judges have used these injunctions to block virtually all of President Trump’s policies,» Bondi said. «No longer. No longer.»
Nationwide injunctions are court orders that prevent the federal government from implementing a policy or law. They have a cascading effect impacting the entire country, not just the parties involved in the court case, and have been used against the Trump administration at a vastly higher rate than previous administrations.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks alongside President Donald Trump on recent Supreme Court rulings in the briefing room at the White House on June 27, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Trump’s first administration faced 64 injunctions out of the total 127 nationwide injunctions issued since 1963, Fox News Digital previously reported. There were 32 injunctions issued against the Bush, Obama and Biden administrations collectively since 2001, meaning the first Trump administration was on the receiving end of double the amount of nationwide injunctions than his two predecessors and successor combined, according to an April 2024 edition of the Harvard Law Review.
Bondi pointed to the five district courts – Maryland, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, California and Washington state – calling it «crazy» that such an overwhelming number of nationwide injunctions originated in those jurisdictions. Conservatives have accused the Left of bringing their cases in liberal judicial districts stocked with Democratic-appointed judges.
Fox News Digital looked at the five district courts and how judges in them have issued sweeping injunctions that have hampered Trump’s federal policies.
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President Donald Trump speaks during a media conference at the end of the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
The Supreme Court agreed this year to take up three consolidated cases involving nationwide injunctions handed down by federal district judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington state related to Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.
The U.S. District Court for Maryland was one of the courts nationwide that issued an injunction against Trump’s January executive order to end the practice of granting birthright citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants. Maryland U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman issued the injunction in February following a lawsuit brought by five pregnant illegal immigrant women in the state, which was followed by other district judges in Washington state and Massachusetts ordering injunctions of their own.
The Maryland district court also issued a separate preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s executive orders ending federal support for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in February.
The court recently came under fire from the Trump administration when the Department of Justice filed lawsuits against each of the 15 federal judges on the Maryland federal bench earlier this month for automatically issuing injunctions for certain immigration cases. The injunctions have prevented the Department of Homeland Security from deporting or changing the legal status of the immigrant in question for two business days.
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«President Trump’s executive authority has been undermined since the first hours of his presidency by an endless barrage of injunctions designed to halt his agenda,» Bondi said in a press release of the state’s automatic injunction practices. «The American people elected President Trump to carry out his policy agenda: this pattern of judicial overreach undermines the democratic process and cannot be allowed to stand.»
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Judges on the bench for the Northern District of California have issued at least six significant injunctions hampering policies put forth by the Trump administration this year. The Northern California district court includes counties such as San Francisco, Sonoma and Santa Clara.
Back in March, Judge William Alsup, for example, granted a preliminary injunction ordering federal agencies to reinstate probationary employees fired under the Trump administration’s efforts to slim down the size of the federal government. Judge Susan Illston granted a temporary pause in May to the Trump administration’s federal reductions in force initiatives, and Judge William Orrick granted a separate injunction in April that prevented the Trump administration from withholding federal funds from areas deemed sanctuaries for illegal immigrants.
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Federal judges on the Northern California bench also issued injunctions to block the enforcement of Trump administration polices related to organizations that promote DEI and LGBTQ programs and to prevent the administration from terminating the legal visa status of international students.

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U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued at least six signigicant injunctions against the Trump administration this year, including Judge James Boasberg’s March injunction preventing the Trump administration from deporting violent illegal immigrant gang members under the Alien Enemies Act – which received widespread backlash among conservatives.
«People are shocked by what is going on with the Court System. I was elected for many reasons, but a principal one was LAW AND ORDER, a big part of which is QUICKLY removing a vast Criminal Network of individuals, who came into our Country through the Crooked Joe Biden Open Borders Policy! These are dangerous and violent people, who kill, maim and, in many other ways, harm the people of our Country,» Trump posted to Truth Social in March following Boasberg extending his restraining order against the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal immigrants with alleged ties to gangs, such as Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua (TdA).

Federal Judge James Boasberg and President Donald Trump (Getty Images)
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Federal Judge Loren AliKhan issued a preliminary injunction in January barring the Trump administration’s freeze on federal grant disbursements through various federal agencies; Judge Paul Friedman blocked the Trump administration from targeting foreign service workers’ collective bargaining rights in May; and Judge Ana Reyes granted a nationwide injunction in March barring the Pentagon from enforcing Trump’s executive order banning transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military.
Judges on the court have also issued injunctions targeting the Trump administration’s plans to dismantle the federally-funded state media network Voice of America, and another that blocked the Bureau of Prisons from implementing a Trump executive order restricting transgender healthcare and accommodations for federal inmates.

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U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has issued at least four significant injunctions against the Trump administration this year, including the nationwide preliminary injunction barring Trump’s executive order ending the practice of granting birthright citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.
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Other injunctions issued this year include Judge Julia Kobick this month blocked Trump’s presidential action requiring passports to reflect a person’s biological sex and not their gender identity, and another that involved the Trump administration’s efforts to end a Biden-era parole program for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Afghanistan, Latin America and Ukraine.

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U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
Ahead of the Supreme Court’s ruling limiting the scope of nationwide injunctions, judges on the District Court for the Western District of Washington issued a handful of injunctions targeting Trump policies, including joining courts in Maryland and Massachusetts earlier this year blocking Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants.
Judge Jamal Whitehead issued a preliminary injunction in February halting Trump’s January executive order suspending the U.S. Refugee Assistance Program. While another federal judge on the bench in March granted a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking Trump’s executive order barring transgender individuals from serving in the military.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington includes counties such as King – home to Seattle – Snohomish and Clark. The two courts for the Western District of Washington and the Northern District of California are both in the 9th Circuit.

President Donald Trump, joined by Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, speaks on recent Supreme Court rulings at the White House on June 27, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Trump celebrated the Supreme Court’s ruling restricting the scope of federal judges’ powers to grant nationwide injunctions as «a monumental victory for the Constitution.»
«The Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory for the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule of law in striking down the excessive use of nationwide injunctions… I was elected on a historic mandate, but in recent months, we’ve seen a handful of radical left judges effectively try to overrule the rightful powers of the president to stop the American people from getting the policies that they voted for in record numbers. It was a grave threat to democracy,» Trump said on Friday.
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SCOTUS’ ruling followed the Trump administration filing an emergency appeal with the highest court in March, when the then-acting solicitor general, Sarah Harris, sounded the alarm that nationwide injunctions had hit «epidemic proportions» under the second Trump administration. She noted that the federal government faced 14 universal injunctions in the first three years of the Biden administration, compared to 15 leveled against the Trump admin in one month alone.
Universal injunctions were also a sticking point for officials in the first Trump administration, who railed against the flow of injunctions ordered against the 45th president’s policies and laws, including the former chiefs of the Department of Justice.
«Courts issued an average of only 1.5 nationwide injunctions per year against the Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, and 2.5 per year against the Obama administration,» former Assistant Attorney General Beth Williams said in February 2019.
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«In President Trump’s first year in office, however, judges issued a whopping 20 nationwide injunctions – an eight-fold increase. This matches the entire eight-year total of such injunctions issued against President Obama during his two terms. We are now at 30, matching the total number of injunctions issued against the first 42 presidents combined.»
Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller, Breanne Deppisch and Ashley Oliver contributed to this report.
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Ante la corrupción en el Ejército, el régimen de Xi Jinping recurre a la propaganda para contener la descomposición interna

El Ejército Popular de Liberación (EPL) de China intensificó esta semana su campaña ideológica interna con la publicación de un editorial que insta a los cuadros políticos militares a “decir la verdad” y “enfrentar los problemas de frente”. El mensaje, difundido en el Diario del EPL, órgano oficial de las Fuerzas Armadas, forma parte de una estrategia propagandística que busca contener el desgaste institucional tras los múltiples escándalos de corrupción que han sacudido a la cúpula militar.
“El ocultamiento de los problemas o el maquillaje de la realidad reflejan un carácter partidario impuro y motivaciones egoístas”, advierte el texto, publicado sin firma individual, pero atribuido a un comentarista oficial del diario. El artículo exige a los funcionarios políticos del Ejército —encargados de aplicar la línea ideológica del Partido Comunista— actuar con “moralidad e integridad” en un contexto marcado por purgas internas, ausencia de información y la caída de varios altos mandos por corrupción.
Los cuadros, sostiene el editorial, deben ser “luchadores, no caballeros”, una formulación que refuerza la visión autoritaria del régimen sobre el papel del liderazgo militar. Se invoca además la figura de Mao Zedong y otros líderes revolucionarios para legitimar la necesidad de “predicar con el ejemplo” en medio de lo que el propio texto califica como “riesgos superpuestos” para el Ejército.
La publicación llega apenas dos días después de que la Comisión Militar Central (CMC), máximo órgano castrense de China, emitiera nuevas directrices para reconstruir la credibilidad de las Fuerzas Armadas. El documento, también difundido por el Diario del EPL, establece “líneas rojas políticas” y limitaciones en las interacciones sociales de los oficiales, con el objetivo explícito de frenar redes de favores y tráfico de influencias.

Aunque no se mencionan nombres, ambos textos aparecen en medio del silencio oficial sobre el paradero y la situación legal de figuras como el general He Weidong, uno de los oficiales de más alto rango que ha desaparecido del espacio público sin explicación. Tampoco se ha informado sobre las causas reales que llevaron a la caída de los dos últimos ministros de Defensa, reemplazados en medio de investigaciones internas cuya existencia no ha sido formalmente reconocida por las autoridades.
La falta de transparencia, sumada a la sustitución del debido proceso por campañas ideológicas, ha sido una constante en la gestión del Ejército bajo el liderazgo de Xi Jinping. En lugar de una rendición de cuentas abierta, el régimen ha optado por reforzar el control político mediante discursos de moral partidaria, publicaciones anónimas y referencias simbólicas a la historia del Partido.
La coincidencia entre el tono del editorial y las nuevas normas disciplinarias revela un patrón habitual en el sistema de propaganda del Partido Comunista Chino: el uso de medios oficiales para ejercer presión indirecta, consolidar el poder de la jerarquía política y silenciar cualquier forma de disidencia dentro del aparato militar.

Lejos de ser un gesto de reforma, el llamado a la “honradez” y a la “verdad” se produce en un entorno donde la verdad institucional se decide desde arriba, sin mecanismos independientes ni espacio para el escrutinio público. En ese contexto, las apelaciones a la lealtad, la disciplina y la “pureza ideológica” funcionan como herramientas de blindaje para un régimen que prioriza la estabilidad política frente a la rendición de cuentas.
(Con información de EFE)
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ICE chief warns AI technology could lead to safety risks for agents: ‘Fringe organizations’

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Far-left organizations could be using artificial intelligence and other technology to reveal the identity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told Fox News Digital in an interview.
Lyons’ remarks come as Democrats in Congress recently proposed the VISIBLE Act, which would require clear identification of ICE agents and prevent masking of federal immigration authorities in public-facing circumstances.
«If legislation passes to try to unmask ICE agents, they are not allowed to wear them, it runs the risk of agitators, different groups, you know, these fringe organizations using reverse technology, AI, to try to dox their families, try to get their identity, their home addresses,» Lyons said of the reaction from agents on the ground. «We’ve heard elected officials say there shouldn’t be any rest for ICE agents or their families.
«So they’re definitely concerned about that. They’re also concerned about their own well-being when they go out to effectuate these arrests because now we have to send more officers out into the communities because where we can send four or five to make arrests in the past, now we had to send up to eight or 10 just to protect the four that are making the arrests of one individual.»
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Residents surround federal and Border Patrol agents after an immigrant raid on Atlantic Boulevard in Bell, Calif., June 19, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
He added that the safety risk does require more resources when conducting arrests. When ICE was conducting operations in Los Angeles in June, President Donald Trump sent in the California National Guard to the city with the goal of protecting agents and quelling riots. That move was legally challenged by California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
«The Marines are withdrawing. This is another win for Los Angeles,» Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass posted to X Monday.
ICE agents have faced an 830% increase in assaults since last year, according to DHS. However, proponents of the VISIBLE Act have said it’s nessescary for accountability.
«For weeks, Americans have watched federal agents with no visible identification detain people off the streets and instill fear in communities across the country,» Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, said in a statement July 8.
«Reports of individuals impersonating ICE officers have only increased the risk to public and officer safety. The lack of visible identification and uniform standards for immigration enforcement officers has created confusion, stoked fear and undermined public trust in law enforcement.»
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Ten suspects were charged with attempted murder of a federal officer in an alleged July 4, 2025, ambush attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. (Johnson County Sheriff’s Office)
«Assault could be anything from resisting arrest where they assault the officers, whether they’re kicking, grabbing officers. It could be something as dramatic as what we saw in Alvarado, Texas, where we had local police ambushed with firearms,» Lyons said.
«You saw it during the recent marijuana grow farm raid operation, where we had an individual firing a handgun at ICE officers, rocks thrown at them. It’s everything from verbal assault to physical assault to threats of bodily harm, deadly force. It’s run the whole gamut.»
Authorities have charged 12 people in an alleged anti-ICE attack at the Prairieland Detention Center on Independence Day, including ten for alleged attempted murder of federal officers and gun offenses. Reports have indicated that some planning occurred through a Signal group chat, and Lyons noted that this was likely planned by the Dallas area activists for some time.
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«Death to ICE» is written on a garbage cart after multiple detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in downtown Los Angeles June 6, 2025. (Reuters/Daniel Cole)
«Well, the FBI is doing a great job investigating it as a whole organized event,» Lyons said. «So, you saw where it was actually organized with social media, where you have organized people in a typical L-shaped ambush where you had escape vehicles. So, without getting too much into what the Department of Justice and the FBI do, there is definitely evidence that this was planned for a while, and it wasn’t just a spur-of-the-moment protest. These were agitators focused on assaulting law enforcement officers and assaulting ICE.»
In terms of facing these coordinated efforts, the director said it’s a matter of planning and looking at the information available before conducting an operation.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents look over lists of names and their hearing times and locations inside the Federal Plaza courthouse before making arrests June 27, 2025, in New York. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images)
«What we’re doing is definitely working with all of our federal partners as well as the state partners that do coordinate with us what we use and all the intelligence that we have at our disposal to go ahead and try to find out as much about these groups and as much as about these organizations and these planned events that we can to let our officers and agents know in the field prior to going out,» Lyons said.
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«So, we wanna make sure that officers are fully aware of what the situations they’re getting into, but we are also making sure that we’re properly staffed when we go out.»
In addition, he said recent funding from the «big, beautiful bill» would be to try to bring back personnel that «retired early» under the Biden administration and look at veterans and officials at the local and state levels who «already have the training» to «beef up» staffing at the agency.
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Estados Unidos ordenó incautar un buque pesquero chino por esclavitud y violaciones a los derechos humanos: hasta hace un mes operó frente al Mar Argentino

El gobierno de Estados Unidos ordenó la incautación de todos los productos de mar capturados por el buque pesquero Zhen Fa 7, de bandera china, por graves violaciones a los derechos humanos.
La embarcación, que operó hasta mediados de junio frente a la Patagonia argentina, fue acusada de prácticas que incluyen esclavitud, violencia sexual, condiciones laborales inhumanas y retención de documentos, según denunció el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional estadounidense.
La medida fue emitida por la Unidad de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza (CBP), que basó su decisión en indicadores de trabajo forzoso identificados por la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT). El caso fue difundido por el Círculo de Políticas Ambientales, una organización que monitorea la pesca ilegal en América del Sur.
«Zhen Fa 7 se benefició de menores costos laborales, produjo bienes por debajo del valor de mercado, perjudicó a las empresas estadounidenses y obtuvo ganancias injustamente», explicó el organismo en su resolución oficial publicada en su sitio web.
Durante más de una década, el buque operó en el Pacífico y Atlántico sur, con una fuerte presencia frente a las costas de Ecuador, Perú, Chile y Argentina. En su paso más reciente por Sudamérica, estuvo operativo frente al Mar Argentino hasta el 16 de junio de 2025 y utilizó el Puerto de Montevideo, Uruguay, como base logística.
No es la primera vez que el Zhen Fa 7 queda en la mira por abusos: en 2021 abandonó a un tripulante en estado crítico en Montevideo. El joven, de nacionalidad indonesia, falleció poco después en un hospital local. Las autoridades uruguayas nunca registraron oficialmente el ingreso del buque tanquero que lo desembarcó.
En marzo de este año, se detectó que el Zhen Fa 7 ingresó hasta 180 millas dentro de la Zona Económica Exclusiva (ZEE) argentina, aproximándose peligrosamente a las costas del Chubut, frente al Golfo San Jorge. Lo hizo acompañado por una flota de al menos 150 pesqueros chinos, bajo el argumento de buscar refugio por tormentas.
En enero, la provincia de Santa Cruz firmó un acuerdo con empresas pesqueras chinas, muchas de las cuales tienen antecedentes similares de abuso y pesca ilegal. El informe alerta que estas flotas operan gracias a subsidios estatales y explotación sistemática de sus tripulaciones.
La pesca ilegal, no declarada y no reglamentada (INDNR) tiene consecuencias devastadoras: afecta ecosistemas marinos, la actividad pesquera legal y también genera un impacto económico y social directo en los países ribereños. A pesar de eso, Argentina todavía no ratificó dos acuerdos internacionales clave (uno de la OMC y otro de la OMI) que podrían contribuir a ponerle freno a estos abusos, a pesar de haber sido aprobados por el Congreso.
Este martes, Argentina depositó su instrumento de ratificación del Acuerdo sobre Subvenciones a la Pesca de la Organización Mundial del Comercio, que busca limitar el accionar de las flotas que realizan pesca ilegal y no reglamentada en los mares del mundo. Había sido aprobado por el Congreso en octubre del año pasado.
Se trata de un acuerdo fundamental para luchar contra la depredación pesquera que ocurre en el Atlántico Sur, ya que impacta directamente en el financiamiento estatal que recibe la flota extranjera que realiza pesca destructiva, ilegal y no reglamentada.
El acuerdo, que demandó más de 20 años de negociación, constituye uno de los principales logros alcanzados en la OMC desde su creación, puesto que por primera vez se establece la restricción de los subsidios que afectan negativamente al comercio y a la conservación de los recursos pesqueros y se prohíbe las subvenciones que contribuyen a la pesca ilegal, no declarada y no reglamentada (INDNR), a la pesca de poblaciones ya sobreexplotadas y a la pesca en alta mar no reglamentada.
Según había anunciado el Gobierno argentino en octubre pasado, el acuerdo tiene implicancias de enorme relevancia para el país, dado su gran litoral marítimo y la importancia de los recursos pesqueros..
En particular, se espera que contribuya a disminuir la presión pesquera en el área adyacente a la Zona Económica Exclusiva Argentina, coloquialmente referida como «milla 201», ya que al limitar la posibilidad de que los países recurran a subsidios para mantener artificialmente la actividad de sus flotas, el acuerdo contribuirá a la protección de los recursos pesqueros en las aguas adyacentes a la jurisdicción nacional, limitará las capacidades de grandes flotas que pescan a distancia y complementará los esfuerzos de patrullaje de las autoridades nacionales sobre el terreno.
Con la aprobación del Congreso, el Gobierno estará ya en condiciones de sumarse a los más de 80 países que han presentado a la OMC su instrumento de ratificación.
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