Since President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, lower court judges have issued 15 injunctions against the administration and its executive orders. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird told Newsmax on Tuesday that “judges don’t make policy, they decide cases.”

A federal appeals court refused last week to lift an order barring the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law.

A split three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit wouldn’t block a March 15 order temporarily prohibiting deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

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