The Justice Department said a law protecting the officials from arbitrary removal is an unconstitutional intrusion on presidential authority.

A federal judge said the Trump administration failed to comply with his order to resume federal payments to foreign assistance programs administered by the US Agency for International Development, but he declined to hold the government in contempt as requested by groups that sued.

At a hearing Wednesday, Judge Dale E. Ho is expected to examine the extraordinary events leading up to the government’s request to drop charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.

U.S. District Judge Dalo Ho will hold a hearing on Wednesday to determine if the criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams should be dismissed.

A union representing the judges said it “makes no sense” to make cuts to immigration courts as Trump promises to carry out mass deportations, which must go through the courts.