President Donald Trump's legal maneuver to invoke a 1798 law to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members has sparked a court showdown.

A federal judge on Monday was incredulous at the contention by the Trump administration that his directive to turn around deportation flights wasn't binding because it was made verbally

The order affects workers at six federal agencies, plus workers who had already been granted relief through an earlier ruling.

An appeals court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s request for an immediate stay on a lower court ruling that reinstated thousands of probationary federal employees who had been fired. A three-judge panel on the U.

A federal appeals court in a 2-1 decision Monday declined to immediately block a judge’s order that the Trump administration reinstate fired probationary employees at six federal agencies. The new ruling,