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Once a patient's application has been approved, they would then have to wait 14 days before proceeding.

District Judge Kimberly Mueller said she could not order the federal prison system to accept a state prisoner, according to a transcript of the proceeding.

Scholars noted the rulings are proceeding in normal fashion, and the Trump administration has yet to turn away as if they don’t matter — at times to its benefit.

Trump is proceeding as though he has a mandate and is above the law, knowing that the courts have no means of enforcing their rulings against him.

But the VA’s attorneys, who maintained throughout the proceeding that the judge’s interpretation of the law was in error, objected and appealed the judgment.