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https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/politics/maryland-judges-trump-lawsuit- immigrants

The Trump administration on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against all 15 federal judges in Maryland over an order blocking the immediate deportation of
migrants challenging their removals, ratcheting up a fight with the
federal judiciary over President Donald Trump’s executive powers.

The remarkable action lays bare the administration’s determination to
exert its will over immigration enforcement as well as a growing
exasperation with federal judges who have time and again turned aside
executive branch actions they see as lawless and without legal merit.

“It’s extraordinary,” Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School,
said of the Justice Department’s lawsuit. “And it’s escalating DOJ’s
effort to challenge federal judges.”

At issue is an order signed by Chief Judge George L. Russell III and filed
in May blocking the administration from immediately removing from the US
any immigrants who file paperwork with the Maryland district court seeking
a review of their detention. The order blocks the removal until 4 p.m. on
the second business day after the habeas corpus petition is filed.

The administration says the automatic pause on removals violates a Supreme Court ruling and impedes the president’s authority to enforce immigration
laws.

The Trump administration has been locked for weeks in a growing showdown
with the federal judiciary amid a barrage of legal challenges to the president’s efforts to carry out key priorities around immigration and
other matters. The Justice Department has grown increasingly frustrated by rulings blocking the president’s agenda, accusing judges of improperly
impeding the president’s powers.

“President Trump’s executive authority has been undermined since the first hours of his presidency by an endless barrage of injunctions designed to
halt his agenda,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement
Wednesday. “The American people elected President Trump to carry out his
policy agenda: this pattern of judicial overreach undermines the
democratic process and cannot be allowed to stand.”

A spokesman for the Maryland district court declined to comment.

Democratic Rep. Glenn Ivey of Maryland slammed the lawsuit, writing in a
post on X, “This is absurd and an unprecedented attack on the federal
judiciary in Maryland. The Trump Administration will stop at nothing to undermine judicial rulings and delegitimize the courts.”

Trump has railed against unfavorable judicial rulings, and in one case
called for the impeachment of a federal judge in Washington who ordered planeloads of deported immigrants to be turned around. That led to an extraordinary statement from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who said, “Impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement
concerning a judicial decision.”

Among the judges named in the lawsuit is Paula Xinis, who has called the administration’s deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador
illegal. Attorneys for Abrego Garcia have asked Xinis to impose fines
against the administration for contempt, arguing that it ignored court
orders for weeks to return him to the US.

The order signed by Russell says it aims to maintain existing conditions
and the potential jurisdiction of the court; ensure immigrant petitioners
are able to participate in court proceedings and access attorneys; and
give the government “fulsome opportunity to brief and present arguments in
its defense.”

In an amended order, Russell said the court had received an influx of
habeas petitions after hours that “resulted in hurried and frustrating
hearings in that obtaining clear and concrete information about the
location and status of the petitioners is elusive.”

The Trump administration has asked the Maryland judges to recuse
themselves from the case. It wants a clerk to have a federal judge from
another state hear it.

James Sample, a constitutional law professor at Hofstra University,
described the lawsuit as further erosion of legal norms by the
administration. Normally when parties are on the losing side of an
injunction, they appeal the order — not sue the court or judges, he said.

On one hand, he said, the Justice Department has a point that injunctions should be considered extraordinary relief; it’s unusual for them to be
granted automatically in an entire class of cases. But, he added, it’s the administration’s own actions in repeatedly moving detainees to prevent
them from obtaining writs of habeas corpus that prompted the court to
issue the order.

“The judges here didn’t ask to be put in this unenviable position,” Sample said. “Faced with imperfect options, they have made an entirely
reasonable, cautious choice to modestly check an executive branch that is determined to circumvent any semblance of impartial process.”


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