Explore the data: rulings in ICE detention cases

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practices.\n\nAt least 20,250 of those were rulings against the administration, handed down by judges appointed by presidents across the ideological spectrum.\n\n\nPOLITICO compiled this database by canvassing public court records for cases in which detainees sued Department of Homeland Security leaders — Markwayne Mullin or his predecessor, Kristi Noem — or Trump. 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