The legislation comes after the White House authorized up to 600 military lawyers to be temporary immigration judges and scrapped requirements for them to have immigration law experience.

The lawsuit accuses the Justice Department of illegally violating her protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, as well as her First Amendment protections.

The firings, part of a nationwide effort, felt “like a Monday afternoon massacre,” said one judge who lost her job last month.

The case was brought to the Supreme Court by the Trump administration, asking the justices for emergency relief.

President Trump is purging the immigration court system. About 140 immigration judges have been fired by the administration or resigned. Meanwhile, the case backlog is growing. What does it mean for immigrants caught in the middle?

A former immigration judge says the DOJ fired her because of her heritage; and Medal of Honor recipients' pensions have been tripled.

Faustino Pablo Pablo was deported to Guatemala despite his urgent warnings to immigration officials that he faced serious danger in his home country.

The ruling was over a DHS policy forcing mandatory detention for many people arrested by immigration agents, stripping people detained of their right to a bond hearing before an immigration judge.