The Trump administration Monday asked Chicago’s federal appeals court to block a lower court’s sweeping order restricting agents’ use of force against protesters and journalists during the feds’ aggressive deportation campaign here.

The Justice Department complained to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis took “a complaint by journalists and protesters” and transformed it “into an instrument for judicial micromanagement of federal law-enforcement operations in the Chicago area.”

“This overbroad and unworkable injunction has no basis in law, threatens the safety of federal officers, and violates the separation of powers,” they wrote.

The commentary appeared in a 22-page motion seeking both a short-term administrative stay and a longer-term stay pendin

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