The Dow plummeted almost 4,000 points in two days after President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, with cracks in employment and declining manufacturing data offering no solace to investors.
The White House has cast him as an MS-13 gang member and asserted that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction over the matter because he is no longer in the country.
Democratic states say teacher training programs in Chicago public schools and a public university in California were already imperiled by the loss of the grants.
The judge wrote that granting the stay while the case is appealed would likely lead to the government deporting thousands of Venezuelans next week, an action that cannot be undone.