Cartwright’s database shows that ICE has carried out 267 deportation flights under Trump, and that the president is using military-transport planes—whose operating costs are three to five times as high as conventional passenger aircrafts’—at an unprecedented rate.

The temporary restraining order is aimed at protecting migrants from deportation to countries other than those identified in immigration proceedings.

Walker is the only judge on the panel appointed by Trump, who named him to the appeals court in 2020. Before Walker's appointment to the D.C. appeals court, Trump appointed him to the District Court for the Western District of Kentucky in 2019. Walker served on that court for just under a year before being confirmed to the appeals court.