CHICAGO (WGN) - An appeals court has canceled Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino's required daily check-ins with a judge.

Bovino's required daily check-ins with Judge Sara Ellis were scheduled to begin Wednesday night to update her on any use of force by immigration officers in Chicagoland.

However, attorneys with the Department of Justice asked an appeals court to stop those check-ins, calling them extraordinarily disruptive.

The lawyers wrote, "Every occasion that Chief Bovino is required to prepare and appear for those daily court sessions is time he would otherwise spend carrying out the important law enforcement functions he's been assigned."

Less than two hours before check-in was set to begin, the appeals court granted their request for an administrative stay.

Ellis ordered the ap

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