In a Friday night ruling, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Trump administration’s controversial policy to detain nearly all individuals facing deportation without bond, even if they have no criminal record and have lived in the U.S. for decades.

The decision, handed down by a divided three-judge panel, reverses three decades of federal precedent and contradicts thousands of lower court rulings nationwide, Politico reported.

“That prior Administrations decided to use less than their full enforcement authority … does not mean they lacked the authority to do more,” Judge Edith Jones, a Reagan appointee, wrote in the 2-1 majority opinion.

The ruling from the conservative New Orleans-based appeals court – a win for the MAGA administration – marks a stark break from the standard practice of allowing bond hearings for deportation cases, which has been upheld by the “vast majority” of judges across the country, according to the outlet.

“A POLITICO review of thousands of ICE detention cases found that at least 360 judges rejected the expanded detention strategy — in more than 3,000 cases — while just 27 backed it, in about 130 cases,” the report said.

Despite the Friday night ruling, legal experts say the case is likely to end up in the Supreme Court, where Trump’s hand-picked conservative justices hold a supermajority.

But according to Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, the ruling is "AWFUL news for due process."

"This decision will wipe out the availability of release through bond for tens of thousands of people detained in or transported to Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi by ICE," he wrote Friday. "This decision overturns 30 years of interpretation of a law passed in 1996."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer didn’t waste any time firing back at President Donald Trump on Friday over claims that it was the New York Democrat who suggested renaming New York Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport after Trump.

“Chuck Schumer suggested that to me about changing the name of Penn Station to Trump Station,” the MAGA leader reportedly said while speaking to reporters on Air Force One.

But Schumer fiercely rejected that premise.

“Absolute lie,” Schumer wrote in a post on X. “He knows it. Everyone knows it. Only one man can restart the project and he can restart it with the snap of his fingers.”

The political back and forth came as reports emerged this week that Trump wants his name on both Dulles and Penn Station while threatening to withhold federal funding for a major transportation project connecting New York City and New Jersey. Schumer swiftly rejected the suggestion, according to media reports.

Schumer later targeted the president's since-deleted racist post depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

"Your dad has no obligation to post racist memes," he wrote in a reply post to Donald Trump Jr. "I wish someone would tell him that."

President Donald Trump used a lengthy Truth Social post on Friday to claim credit for a new commercial fishing proclamation – while issuing a plea to Maine and New England voters to remember him as the November midterms approach.

“Another BIG WIN for Maine, and all of New England!” Trump wrote. “Hard to believe you vote for Democrats who did this to you, but not for ‘TRUMP,’ who gets you out of this Environmental and Economic Malaise.”

He urged residents to “VOTE REPUBLICAN FROM NOW ON” and then went on to bash “the Radical Left” for what he called “Burdensome and Unnecessary Restrictions on EVERYTHING, including our Great American Fishermen.”

“In my First Term, I reversed the prohibitions placed on Commercial Fishing, but Joe Biden, or whoever was using the AUTOPEN, foolishly reinstated them. Since Day One, I have taken historic action to END these disastrous policies,” Trump claimed in his Friday post, adding that the proclamation he signed today “will revitalize our Fishing Industry, and STRENGTHEN our Booming Economy.”

He then congratulated “all of our Great Fishermen,” before making a direct plea to voters.

“Please remember I did this for you, against strong Democrat opposition, and VOTE REPUBLICAN IN THE MIDTERMS!” Maine voted Democratic in the last nine elections, according to 270towin.com, including in 2024 when Kamala Harris led Trump by 7%.