BALTIMORE — A judge on Wednesday questioned why it was necessary for the Trump administration to sue Maryland's entire federal bench over an order that paused the immediate deportation of migrants challenging their removals.

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A judge is considering why it was necessary for the Trump administration to sue Maryland's entire federal bench over an order stopping the immediate deportation of immigrants challenging their removals

U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen hasn't issued a ruling in the case, but he expressed skepticism about the administration's extraordinary legal maneuver during a hearing Wednesday in federal court in Baltimore

Cullen serves in the Western District of Virginia, but he was tapped to oversee the case because all of Maryland's 15 federal judges are

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