On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the death penalty from being carried out.

Unless last-minute court decisions change the timeline, Jessie Hoffman Jr. will be the first person in 15 years to be executed by the state of Louisiana. The big picture: State officials plan to execute Hoffman by nitrogen hypoxia,

President Trump called the judge overseeing the deportation case regarding Venezuelan gang members a "lunatic" and called for him to be impeached. Meanwhile, Democrats are taking their town halls to Republican districts.

The Trump administration Monday insisted it had not violated a court order by expelling hundreds of alleged members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador for imprisonment, even as a federal judge ordered a halt to some deportations.

President Donald Trump is battling a court's decision to temporarily block him from using the Alien Enemies Act. The law makes it easier to detain and remove noncitizens from the U.S. Trump used the law to deport hundreds of alleged gang members to El Salvador over the weekend.