JUST IN: Appeals Courtroom Tosses Activist Choose’s Controversial Border Patrol Ruling
A federal appeals court quickly overturned a controversial lower court ruling that would have required U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, who is leading the Trump Administration’s immigration enforcement operation in Chicago, to report back to the court on a daily basis.
Bovino has been leading Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump Administration’s expanded immigration enforcement operations in the Chicago area that has resulted in nearly 3,000 apprehensions of illegal aliens. The operation has mostly targeted gang members and illegal aliens with serious criminal histories.
Federal agents have come under constant assault from far-left extremists in the area, particularly outside an ICE detention facility in the community of Broadview. Bovino personally helped to organize a defense of the facility after weeks of consistent rioting and violent assaults on agents, which has been met with a surge in federal resources and the deployment of less-than-lethal crowd control measures such as tear gas, rubber bullets and mass arrests of rioters.
Agents in the area have also been subjected to multiple ramming attacks, including one incident in which agents were forced to open fire after they were rammed and boxed in by armed rioters.
Despite the well-documented attacks on the Broadview facility and elsewhere, left-wing groups have filed multiple lawsuits seeking to prevent agents from adequately defending federal facilities. Such lawsuits have yielded some results, including a September 23 ruling in which a federal judge ordered agents to take down a fence that had been set up outside the facility.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Sara L. Ellis, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, imposed an order requiring Bovino to appear daily in her court to provide in-person updates on the operation’s activities, including details on the use of force and body-camera footage. The ruling generated widespread controversy and was slammed as judicial overreach by critics.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit intervened by issuing an order that temporarily blocked Judge Ellis’s mandate. This decision came after a petition for a writ of mandamus and an emergency motion for a stay were filed by the petitioners, likely including the Justice Department and Bonino’s team.
The 7th Circuit granted an administrative stay, allowing Bovino to continue his duties without the daily court appearances, with a further hearing scheduled for October 30.
🚨 BREAKING: A US Appeals court has just sided with Border Patrol Commander Bovino, BLOCKING an activist judge from requiring Bovino to come to court EVERY AFTERNOON
This was an attempt to STIFLE Bovino’s work in deporting vioIent illegals
BIG WIN! 🔥
Congrats @CMDROpAtLargeCA… pic.twitter.com/yDjIXZiKeW
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 29, 2025
While speaking with Fox News ahead of the ruling, Bovino pointed to well-documented instances of violence and rioting outside the Broadview facility.
“If she wants to meet with me every day then she’s going to see, she’s going to have a very good first hand look at just how bad things really are on the streets of Chicago… we’ve never been in violation of any TRO, any regulation,” Bovino said. “We’re going to speed those apprehensions up, and no, we are going to go harder. We go harder now. I’m not worried about it at all.”
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