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.
