By Nate Raymond and Jan Wolfe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday threw out an unusual lawsuit the U.S. Department of Justice filed against every federal judge in Maryland, which had challenged a court order blocking President Donald Trump’s administration from immediately deporting migrants in the state contesting their removal.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen, a Trump appointee from Roanoke, Virginia brought in to oversee the case in Baltimore, marked a setback for the Trump administration’s battle against judicial orders stymieing the president’s agenda.

(Reporting by Nate Raymond and Jan Wolfe; Additional reporting by Andrew Goudsward)

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