Cullen sided with the judges in tossing the case, arguing in the ruling that allowing the lawsuit to proceed “would run counter to overwhelming precedent, depart from longstanding constitutional tradition, and offend the rule of law.”<\/p>\n

“In their wisdom, the Constitution’s framers joined three coordinate branches to establish a single sovereign. That structure may occasionally engender clashes between two branches and encroachment by one branch on another’s authority. But mediating those disputes must occur in a manner that respects the Judiciary’s constitutional role,” Cullen wrote, calling the lawsuit “not ordinary.”<\/p>\n

The Justice Department, in the lawsuit it filed in June against all of the judges in the judicial district, which only includes one Trump appointee, claimed the standing order was unlawfully interfering in the executive branch’s business.<\/p>\n

“Every unlawful order entered by the district courts robs the Executive Branch of its most scarce resource: time to put its policies into effect. In the process, such orders diminish the votes of the citizens who elected the head of the Executive Branch,” the DOJ said in its lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the federal judges in Maryland argued<\/a> the lawsuit was “unprecedented” and “fundamentally incompatible with the separation of powers.”<\/p>\n

Cullen said in his ruling that the DOJ “must find a proper way to raise” its concerns, and suggested appealing the standing order in a habeas proceeding to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, among other options to challenge the standing order.<\/p>\n

The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, where the challenged order remains in place, has been the venue for multiple lawsuits against the Trump administration, as the left-leaning bench has become a popular place for opponents of the administration to bring their legal challenges.<\/p>\n

WHAT IS NEXT FOR ABREGO GARCIA AFTER BEING DETAINED BY ICE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the most high-profile cases the Trump administration has fought in the Maryland judicial district was filed by illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia over his deportation.<\/p>\n

The latest volley fired in that legal battle, filed Monday, challenges the Salvadoran national’s deportation to Uganda via a habeas corpus petition. Because of the standing order in the judicial district, his deportation was automatically paused until at least Wednesday, but a judge indefinitely halted his deportation pending the scheduling of an evidentiary hearing in the case.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n