What happened

A federal judge Tuesday dismissed President Donald Trump's controversial lawsuit against all 15 U.S. district judges in Maryland, calling the White House's legal maneuver "potentially calamitous" and its broader "concerted effort" to "smear and impugn" federal judges "both unprecedented and unfortunate." Judge Thomas Cullen said the administration's lawsuit was legally defective and the wrong tool to challenge the Maryland district's standing order to pause all contested deportations for two business days.

Who said what

In his 39-page ruling, Cullen, a Trump appointee, said the executive branch had no authority to sue the judges and its "novel" attempt to do so threatened a "constitutional free-for-all" that could upset the balance of powers between the co-equal branches o

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