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.
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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.”
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The Justice Department has grown increasingly frustrated by rulings blocking the president’s agenda, accusing judges of improperly impeding the president’s powers.
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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.
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The Trump administration has asked the Maryland judges to recuse themselves from the [habeas] case. It wants a clerk to have a federal judge from another state hear it.
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Normally when parties are on the losing side of an injunction, they appeal the order — not sue the court or judges.
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