Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. And today is Monday, St. Patrick's Day, March 17th, 2025.

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Today, how judges are calling out the Trump administration. Plus, some who are married or engaged

to U.S. citizens are being detained by

ICE. And it's almost time to return home later than expected for a pair of astronauts.

Judges around the country have recently been calling out the Trump administration for various

legal arguments. I caught up with USA Today Supreme Court Court correspondent Maureen Grappie for more.

Hello, Maureen. Hey, how are you? Good, good. Thanks for wrapping on today. So you wrote about the

condemnations from three federal judges in courtrooms around the country this week. Let's start with

U.S. District Judge William Alcip, who handed down that major ruling on federal worker firings.

What happened here,

Maureen? And what did we hear from Judge Alsup himself? Yeah, so this case is about the federal workers who were fired because they had not been on the job that long, either had been recently

hired or had been recently promoted. And they were all given notices about the same time.

But individual agencies are supposed to be

able to make those decisions, not one directive coming from one office within the White

House.

And so the judge had been trying to get at that point and felt like the administration was

trying to obfuscate the fact that they had not done this properly.

And what he specifically said is, I've been practicing or serving in this court for over 50 years,

and I know how we get at the truth, and you're not helping me get at the truth.

You're giving me press releases, sham documents.

And then he also attacked the fact that the dismissal notices that these individual workers got said they

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