The Department of Homeland Security’s general counsel, James Percival, accused a small group of federal district judges of repeatedly obstructing the Trump administration’s immigration agenda. He said their rulings were preventing deportations and efforts to roll back Temporary Protected Status, framing the dispute as a challenge to the administration’s ability to enforce immigration policy.

Percival argued that some judges were acting contrary to recent Supreme Court decisions and called the conduct “naked political activism”. The article presents his view that the public should know which judges he believes are defying higher-court guidance, while referring specifically to a limited group rather than the federal judiciary as a whole.