The Trump administration’s unprecedented lawsuit against Maryland’s federal judges and the court itself was dismissed on Monday.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen, of the Western District of Virginia, who was brought in to hear the case because all of Maryland’s judges were named as defendants, granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss on Monday, just short of two weeks after a hearing in which he expressed skepticism about the administration’s legal arguments.
The administration sued after George Russell III, Maryland’s chief judge, issued a standing order in May pausing the removal of immigrants in Maryland for about two days after they file petitions for writ of habeas corpus . The order, which was not tied to any specific case, was intended to preserve due process and the court’s j