U.S. District Judge Amir Ali denied the Department of Justice's request to push the midnight deadline by which the Trump administration needs to pay more than $1.9 billion in foreign aid. The case is now in the hands of a panel of three appellate judges – each nominated to the bench by Democratic presidents – who will decide whether to issue an emergency stay of the deadline.

A Republican lawmaker on Thursday moved to have a judge impeached for ordering President Donald Trump's administration to lift a freeze of nearly all foreign aid, bringing to three the number of judges facing long-shot bids by conservative U.