A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's suit targeting the entire federal bench in Maryland and characterized the challenge as potentially calamitous. The suit sought to block a chief judge's order pausing immediate deportations of migrants who contested removals, arguing the automatic pause interfered with presidential authority to enforce immigration laws. Judge Thomas Cullen criticized the Executive's recent attacks on judges, noting White House officials labeled judges "rogue," "unhinged" and "crooked." Cullen held that allowing the suit to proceed would contradict precedent, undermine constitutional tradition, and offend the rule of law, emphasizing the need to respect the Judiciary's constitutional role.
BALTIMORE (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the Trump administration's lawsuit against Maryland's entire federal bench in a ruling that underscored the extraordinary nature of the suit, slamming it as "potentially calamitous."
U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen, who was nominated by President Donald Trump, also criticized the administration's attacks on the judiciary, saying in a footnote that White House officials in recent months had described judges as "rogue," "unhinged" and "crooked," among other epithets. "Although some tension between the coordinate branches of government is a hallmark of our constitutional system, this concerted effort by the Executive to smear and impugn individual judges who rule against it is both unprecedented and unfortunate," he wrote.
"In their wisdom, the Constitution's framers joined three coordinate branches to establish a single sovereign," Cullen wrote. "That structure may occasionally engender clashes between two branches and encroachment by one branch on another's authority. But mediating those disputes must occur in a manner that respects the Judiciary's constitutional role."
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