In an unusual movement, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the entire Federal Judiciary of Maryland for a permanent order that prohibits the Government from deporting undocumented immigrants at least one day after they present a legal challenge to their arrest.
“This demand implies another unfortunate example of the illegal use of equitable powers to restrict the Executive,” says the demand.
He adds: “Specifically, the defendants have instituted an unquestionably automatic judicial order against the federal government, issued outside the context of any particular case or controversy … by promulgating a permanent order and a permanent amended order that requires that the secretary of the Court automatically enter an judicial order against the removal or legal change of, any alienicro detained in the WHO of Maryland that presents a request of hae.”
The United States District Court issued the permanent order last month by the Maryland district, since the courts throughout the country were trying to administer a wave of emergency demands that challenge the aggressive movements of the Trump administration to deport undocumented immigrants.
In this archive photo of January 27, 2025, the United States immigration and customer compliance agents stop a person in Silver Spring, MD.
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The Federal Court in Maryland was home to the cases more high profile, involving Kilmar Abrego García, who was deported to El Salvador by mistake and finally returned to the United States this month to face federal charges of illegal traffic of undocumented immigrants.
The judge who supervises the civil case of Abrego García, Paula Xinis, is still considering sanctioning government officials for their initial negatives to facilitate the release of Abrego García, but now Xinis is among other 16 judges that now appear as accused in this new civil lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice.
The unusual movement to sue all members of the Federal Judiciary in Maryland means that technically, no judge in the district can supervise the lawsuit.
In an attempt to address this issue, the Department of Justice requested in a motion on Wednesday that each judge in the district withdrew from the case and that it is referred to the Court of Appeals of the Fourth Circuit “for the allocation of a randomly selected district judge of another district or is transferred to another district.”
This is a development story. Consult the updates again.
