( July 24, 2026, 2:33 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a July 23 one-sentence per curiam order denied a petition for rehearing en banc filed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretary and other federal government parties after a split panel ruled in April that a proclamation issued by President Donald J. Trump on the day of his inauguration that limited asylum and withholding of removal applications and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) guidance that followed are “unlawful to the extent that they circumvent the INA’s [Immigration and Nationality Act’s] removal procedures and cast aside federal laws affording individuals the right to apply and be considered for asylum or withholding of removal protections.”...