A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the Trump administration’s unusual lawsuit against all 15 federal judges in Maryland, ruling the Justice Department cannot sue the judiciary over disagreements with immigration rulings.
Judge Thomas T. Cullen of the Western District of Virginia said the proper channel for challenging such decisions is through appeals, not lawsuits. “A lawsuit by the executive branch of government against the judicial branch for the exercise of judicial power is not ordinary,” Cullen wrote, calling dismissal unavoidable under precedent.
The administration sued in June after Maryland judges, led by Chief Judge George L. Russell III, barred immediate deportations of detainees contesting their cases. The DOJ accused the judges of “egregious judicial overreach,” pointing to repeated injunctions stalling Trump’s immigration agenda.
Cullen criticized the effort to “smear and impugn individual judges,” calling it “both unprecedented and unfortunate.”
The case emerged after the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national later returned to the U.S. by court order.
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