'Out of context': Court smacks down Trump's attempt to render rights 'meaningless'

A federal appeals court rejected a Trump administration argument that asserted the government could perpetually "reset" a six-month maximum limit on detentions for re-detained immigrants, making their rights "meaningless." The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday in the case of Kaveh Abedi, an Iranian man whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement locked up again in 2025.Under the ruling, the interview requirement ICE failed to meet protects a detainee’s due process rights, which guarantee fair treatment before the government takes away someone’s freedom.“[W]e hold that the Government violated its regulations by failing to ‘promptly’ provide Mr. Abedi with an informal interview and opportunity to be heard on its reasons for revoking his release,” Judge Carolyn McHugh wrote for the three-judge panel.Abedi’s family fled Iran and won asylum in the United States in 1991, when he was 10, according to the opinion.After a drug possession conviction, an immigration judge in 2002...