In recent days, a Trump-appointed judge in Oregon declared the president’s decision to send the National Guard to Portland was “simply untethered to the facts.”

In Tennessee, an Obama-appointed judge ruled that Kilmar Abrego García had presented enough evidence to pursue a rare claim of “vindictive prosecution.” On Thursday, Judge April M. Perry in Chicago, appointed by President Joe Biden, said she had seen a “lack of credibility” from the Department of Homeland Security.

Affidavits from the agency’s officials, “point to the arrest of people who did not actually commit a crime. That undercuts the persuasive value of your argument,” she told attorneys for the administration.

As those admonishments have rained down from federal judges, White House officials have responded with increasin

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