The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to pause a court order blocking immigration stops that a judge found to be indiscriminate in Southern California.

Lawyers for the Justice Department filed an emergency petition after a panel of judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit last Friday largely denied the administration's request to suspend the lower court ruling .

That ruling, by District Judge Maame E. Frimpong, required federal immigration officials to have reasonable suspicion that someone is in the country illegally before detaining them. Frimpong found there was a "mountain of evidence" that federal immigration enforcement tactics were violating the Constitution.

In her order, Frimpong prohibited federal agents from basing arrests

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