The Deep State judicial resistance to President Trump’s immigration agenda just hit a brick wall.
Federal judges thought they could continue their lawfare games with impunity.
But Trump’s DHS just steamrolled 15 federal judges with this unprecedented legal move that has the legal establishment reeling.
Trump administration takes the gloves off against activist judges
The Department of Homeland Security filed an extraordinary lawsuit against all 15 judges sitting on the federal bench in Maryland’s district court.
The Trump administration accused the entire judicial panel of “egregious judicial overreach” for implementing an automatic injunction policy that blocks deportations.
“A sense of frustration and a desire for greater convenience do not give Defendants license to flout the law,” the attorneys wrote in a filing Tuesday. “Nor does their status within the judicial branch.”
The Maryland court’s standing order requires clerks to immediately enter temporary administrative injunctions in cases brought by alleged illegal immigrants who are challenging their detention.
The automatic injunctions in these cases, known as habeas corpus cases, temporarily bar the DHS from deporting or changing the legal status of the immigrant in question for two business days.
The court claimed it implemented this policy to preserve the “status quo” when a case is filed, citing a higher volume than usual of cases involving detained immigrants attempting to prevent the government from keeping them detained or deporting them.
The court’s order cited “scheduling difficulties” caused by cases “filed after normal court hours and on weekends and holidays.”
But the Trump administration isn’t buying this excuse for judicial activism.
DHS demands judges recuse themselves from their own lawsuit
The Trump administration took the unprecedented step of asking all 15 judges to recuse themselves from the very case targeting them.
DHS attorneys requested that an outside judge take over the proceedings or transfer the case to a different court district entirely.
This bold legal strategy puts the Maryland judges in an impossible position where they would have to rule on their own alleged misconduct.
The lawsuit represents the Trump administration’s most aggressive pushback yet against the wave of judicial interference hampering President Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
Individual illegal immigrants have been using every legal avenue available to challenge and delay their deportations through appeals and court filings.
But the Maryland court’s blanket policy of automatically halting deportations goes far beyond individual case protections.
The case that sparked Trump’s legal offensive
The Maryland judicial activism reached a breaking point in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who was mistakenly deported before receiving due process.
Judge Paula Xinis, who is now one of the defendants in the DHS lawsuit, ordered the Trump administration to return Abrego Garcia to the United States.
Abrego Garcia was deported to a prison in El Salvador in March before he was ordered returned months later to face trafficking charges.
This became the basis for Democrats’ talking point that illegal immigrants are being deported without proper due process – something the Trump administration argues the Constitution only protects for citizens.
Instead of addressing individual cases, the Maryland court implemented a sweeping policy that effectively grants automatic protection to any illegal immigrant who files paperwork.
Trump fights back against judicial resistance
This lawsuit signals that President Trump is done playing defense against activist judges trying to sabotage his immigration agenda.
The legal system has been weaponized against Trump since he first ran for President, with judges consistently ruling against his policies regardless of their constitutional authority.
Federal judges blocked Trump’s travel ban, his border wall funding, his asylum restrictions, and countless other immigration enforcement measures during his first term.
Now they’re trying the same playbook by creating bureaucratic obstacles that grind deportations to a halt.
But Trump learned from his first presidency that he can’t let judicial activism go unchallenged.
The Maryland lawsuit sends a clear message that the Trump administration will use every legal tool available to overcome judicial obstruction.
This unprecedented legal strategy could set a powerful precedent for holding activist judges accountable when they exceed their constitutional authority.
The American people elected Donald Trump to secure the border and remove illegal immigrants who have no right to be in this country.
No activist judge should be allowed to unilaterally block the enforcement of immigration law through administrative gimmicks disguised as scheduling convenience.
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