The Trump administration has pressed the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to 'thumbs-up, thumbs-down' the Flores settlement agreement, a decades-old case in Los Angeles federal court that sets the rules for how the government can detain migrant children.

Commissioning murder is "not categorically a crime of violence," even in cases where the killer fulfills the contract, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week, invalidating two felony convictions that stemmed from an oil well dispute in North Dakota.