In the 36 days since President Trump invoked a powerful wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants accused of gang membership, a complex and high-risk legal battle has played out in the federal courts.

Judge Charlotte Sweeney of the federal District Court for the District of Colorado issued an important ruling against the Trump Administration,

A showdown in federal court in Denver could help shape the legal landscape surrounding deportations as immigrants' rights groups fight the Trump administration in court over a seldom-used 18th-century wartime law.