Posted on 08/26/2025 9:36:48 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit against all 15 federal district judges in Maryland over an order slowing down speedy deportation efforts, calling the administration’s attacks on the judiciary “unprecedented and unfortunate.”
U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen, an appointee of President Trump who sits on a federal court in Virginia, dismissed the lawsuit challenging a May standing order that automatically blocks the deportation of migrants in Maryland who file legal challenges over their detention for two business days.
The Trump administration had argued that the order, which was signed by the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, interferes with the executive branch’s powers and violate various rules.
“Fair enough, as far as it goes,” Cullen wrote. “If these arguments were made in the proper forum, they might well get some traction.”
But the judge explained that, instead of challenging the standing order through the proper channels, it chose a “different, and more confrontational, path entirely” by suing the entire Maryland bench.
In a footnote, he took it a step further.
“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.
“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.”
In tossing the lawsuit, Cullen said he agreed “nearly across the board” with the judges who argued the action must be dismissed because it amounted to a political dispute between two coequal branches of government. The judges also argued that because standing orders are quintessential judicial actions, they must be immune from the suit.
Cullen said that to rule any other way but dismissing the suit would “run counter to overwhelming precedent, depart from longstanding constitutional tradition, and offend the rule of law.”
Still, he said, the Trump administration is not without recourse.
Trumps one weakness is that he can’t find honest employees and associates. They all suck. Especially “judges”.
Trumps one weakness is that he can’t find honest employees and associates. They all suck. Especially “judges”.
They have to follow the law...
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Please explain how this is a First Amendment issue.
Exactly. His argument is that the DOJ didn’t sue each judge over each incident but that suing the entire judiciary was somehow more “confrontational”. I really think there needs to be a deep dive into to the entire judiciary.
Right to petition government for redress of grievances.
Men In Black close ranks to protect themselves from being lowered from being “Above The Law”.
Exactly. When people think it is good idea if Trump is able to do something, We should consider whether we'd want Obama, Biden, or maybe AOC to have that exact same power.
This was just a dumb case right from the start. Even one of his own appointees sitting on the bench torched it.
Thy are basically saying they have no right to challenge the court because it’s the court.
But the first amendment says you have the right to petition the government for grievances.
So the court seems to think you can only petition for grievances against congress and the executive (not the courts).
But courts are a branch of government...
There’s no “they.” It’s one judge, and he’s a Trump appointee.
Believe it or not, officers of the court are held to standards higher than Free Speech. Bad faith pleadings that violate law, practice, or decorum are frowned upon. The judge believe the government acted recklessly by pursuing a cause without merit.
“Free Speech” doesn’t mean a court has to agree with your pleading.
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