Feb. 12 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plans to relocate former death row inmates to the country's most restrictive supermax prison.

The plaintiffs' Fifth Amendment claim is likely to pass muster because "redesignations were determined before their process even began" and "they had no meaningful opportunity to challenge them."

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences to the nation’s highest security federal prison, warning that officials cann...