A Trump-appointed judge dismissed the case against the Maryland judiciary over an order barring the government from deporting immigrants for at least one day.
A Donald Trump-appointed federal judge has dismissed the case brought by the Department of Justice against the entire Maryland judiciary over a standing order that bars the government from deporting undocumented immigrants for at least one day after they file a legal challenge to their detention.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen called the Trump administration’s attacks on district judges across the country a „smear“ and „unprecedented and unfortunate.“
„Indeed, over the past several months, principal officers of the Executive (and their spokespersons) have described federal district judges across the country as ‚left-wing‘, ‚liberal‘, ‚activists‘, ‚radical‘, ‚politically minded‘, ‚rogue‘, ‚unhinged‘, ‚outrageous, overzealous, [and] unconstitutional‘, ‚[c]rooked‘, and worse“, Cullen wrote in a footnote. „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.
