The federal appeals court in Chicago said Thursday it would continue to block the release of hundreds of people detained by immigration authorities, but it also rejected a novel argument that’s been used by the Trump administration to hold people in mandatory detention.

That’s the upshot of the complex ruling by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. It addresses two orders handed down by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings in October and November — right in the thick of the deportation campaign known as “Operation Midway Blitz.”

Judge John Lee, who authored Thursday’s 27-page appeals court opinion, said it won’t go into effect for two weeks. That’s at the request of the Trump administration, which might turn next to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Though the appeals court blocked Cummings’ at

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