In an unprecedented move, the Justice Department sued all 15 federal judges in Maryland in June, alleging that a recent order from the state’s U.S. district court impeded the government’s immigration actions. This week, the lawsuit was dismissed by a judge President Donald Trump appointed during his first term.

In his decision issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen of Virginia wrote that the Justice Department’s arguments might have gotten traction if it used the proper channels to voice its complaints, yet it was unsurprising that the federal government “chose a different, and more confrontational, path entirely.”

Judge Cullen said he had no choice but to dismiss the case, writing that doing otherwise would “run counter to overwhelming precedent, depart from longstanding co

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