As federal judges in Maryland asked one of their judicial peers to throw out the Trump administration's lawsuit against the whole district court over "standing orders" for automatic two-day stays in cases where detainees facing deportation file habeas corpus petitions, the DOJ on Wednesday demanded a preliminary injunction to shut down the practice as an affront to the executive's immigration enforcement prerogatives.

U.S. District Judge Thomas T. Cullen, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia before President Donald Trump appointed him to a lifetime judgeship in the same jurisdiction back in 2020, presided over a roughly two-hour hearing, where an attorney for the judges and a DOJ lawyer sparred over, what all seemed to agree, was an extraordinary lawsuit by the U.S. agai

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