For the last several weeks, judges sitting in Chicago’s federal courthouse have largely sided against the Trump administration on questions raised by the aggressive immigration campaign that hit the city this fall.

But Tuesday, a federal appeals judge leveled blunt criticism toward a pair of rulings from U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings, who extended a settlement agreement that governed immigration arrests here and then ordered the release of hundreds who had been detained.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put Cummings’ orders on hold , and a three-judge panel from the court heard arguments Tuesday. It’s not clear how the panel will rule, or even when. But Judge Thomas Kirsch took clear umbrage with Cummings’ handling of the settlement agreement, which had been reached during th

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