Dem
47
GOP
53
Yesterday, we had an item on bodies. That was about one case. Politico went to the trouble of tracking down other immigration cases. It found over 11,000 of them. In 90% of them, the judge ruled against the Trump administration. Turns out the Constitution says that everyone in the U.S., legally or not, including immigrants, has the right to due process. Specifically, that means that law enforcement may not arrest and deport someone without a judge first saying that the arrestee broke some law and is subject to deportation. In other words, just grabbing people off the street and deporting them violates the Constitution and judges will not stand for it.
If you are an immigration nerd and want to see all 11,610 cases, here is the list. Be prepared to scroll through 581 pages, though. It would have been nice if Politico had made an Excel spreadsheet you could download, but that apparently it didn't.
What is interesting is who appointed the judges who made these rulings. The majority were Democratic appointees, in part because many Bush and Reagan appointees have long since retired, so the courts have more Democratic appointees than Republican appointees. Still, even among Trump appointees, Trump has lost over two-thirds of the cases. Among Biden appointees, Trump has lost 92% of the cases. That does suggest a difference in philosophy (or something) between Democratic and Republican appointees. Here is the distribution:
Politico has said it will keep the database up to date as new cases are decided.(V)