As anticipated, the Trump administration Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a court order barring federal agents from making immigration arrests via raids that a Los Angeles federal judge determined were carried out without probable cause.

The emergency petition from the Justice Department comes after an appeals court denied the government’s bid to lift the temporary restraining order freezing the raids as they were previously carried out.

“This case involves a district-court injunction that threatens to upend immigration officials’ ability to enforce the immigration laws in the Central District of California by hanging the prospect of contempt over every investigative stop of suspected illegal aliens,” according to the Justice Department’s application to the Supreme Court to

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