While completely destroying the DOJ's lawsuit against a whole federal court in Maryland and its judges, a judge appointed by President Donald Trump slammed the executive and certain cabinet members for their persistent attacks on the judiciary when cases and issues don't go their way.

Pointing out that "these are not normal times," U.S. District Judge Thomas T. Cullen declined to entertain the merits of the government's "novel and potentially calamitous" lawsuit, which claimed that Chief U.S. District Judge George Russell III's standing order for two-day stays in response to an "influx of habeas petitions" amounted to a judicial usurpation of the administration's immigration enforcement agenda.

Instead, Cullen dismissed the case in its entirety, and for multiple reasons — the most basic

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