Federal judge skeptic about Trump lawsuit in Maryland court system

The judge was skeptical on Wednesday Ministry of Justice The arguments related to the Trump administration’s abnormal lawsuit against all 15 district court judges in Maryland challenge the court order.

Judge Thomas Cullen of the Western Virginia Region asked the Justice Department’s lawsuit over the lawsuit, which claimed that the Maryland District Court went beyond its power by imposing a conventional order that automatically ceased deportation cases when first filed for two days.

Trump-appointed Cullen told the Justice Department attorney at the hearing that he was alert to his position.

“One thing about me is that I don’t have a good poker face and you might choose because I have some skeptical facts,” Coolun said.

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A Virginia federal judge is presided over the case in Baltimore because the Maryland judge withdraws himself. Coulen said he will make a decision on whether he will block regular orders before Labor Day.

Justice Department attorney Elizabeth Hedges argued at the hearing that the Maryland court order effectively “tampered with tampering” [U.S.] The Attorney General’s discretion over immigration enforcement.

The order requires clerks to sign administrative injunctions immediately that last for two working dates in cases brought by allegedly illegal immigrants that challenge their detention or removal. The purpose of the ban is to temporarily ban the Department of Homeland Security Deportation or change the legal status of the immigration until the judge has time to review it.

Hedges argued that even if the court lacks jurisdiction in some of them, the judge would automatically enter the order.

President Donald Trump signed a signed executive order at a ceremony held in the Southern Court Auditorium on August 5, 2025. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The lawsuit was filed in June because of a positive public stance against federal judges who blocked many presidential enforcement actions, including in the areas of immigration, education and federal agency cuts.

President Donald Trump complained about his agenda being stuck and called for an improper order to impose an improvisation on certain judges. However, in many cases, the Supreme Court has overturned the judge and allowed Trump to temporarily enforce his executive actions, while the lawsuit is held in lower courts.

Attorney Paul Clement, representing a Maryland judge, argued that at the hearing there were fewer alternatives to “confrontational” than differences in courts.

Clement, a well-known Conservative attorney who served as a lawyer for former President George Bush, defended conventional orders as “a modest effort to uphold the judiciary’s ability to play its role in the constitutional mandate.”

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Demonstrators protested El Salvador’s deportation outside of El Salvador’s permanent mission in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Chief Justice George Russell Maryland Said he issued regular orders to facilitate timetables to ensure the “status status” is retained when submitting deportation. He cited the “recent influx” of cases involving detained immigrants involving normal court hours, including weekends and holidays.

The lawsuit represents a test of the independence of the judiciary. Clement said this is “fundamentally incompatible” with the power of separation.

“We just don’t have the tradition of litigation with the judiciary, the executive with Congress, with the executive, with the executive,” Clement said.

The lawsuit is also due to some obstacles in Trump’s mass deportation agenda, as immigrants raise court challenges and appeals for their removal.

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Perhaps the most prominent example occurs in Maryland, where Judge Paula Xinis, now one of the 15 defendants in a lawsuit against the judge, ordered the administration to return Salvadoran National Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States after the Trump administration admitted that the court had mistakenly expelled him from a prison in El Salvador.

Abrego Garcia has since been returned facing criminal charges of transporting illegal immigrants. He pleaded not guilty.