The US Justice Department is seeking to dismiss its lawsuit against Maryland’s federal trial judges, after the court adopted a new standing order on temporarily blocking some deportations.
In a motion to dismiss filed Jan. 16, DOJ said that the case is now moot because the US District Court for the District of Maryland’s new order overrides the ones that were the subject of the litigation. The federal government had sued over the automatic blocks on deporting detained persons who filed habeas petitions.
The new standing order—adopted on Dec. 1—is “materially different” from the earlier ones, DOJ said. The ...
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