A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from ending legal protections next week that have allowed nearly 1,100 Somalis to live and work in the United States.

Since Trump began his second term in the White House, personal fealty to him has been the most important qualification for ambitious conservative lawyers who aspire to seats on the federal bench. Rarely, however, has a Trump nominee auditioned for a job quite so explicitly, in such a public manner, over so many years, with so many hashtags.