The spectacle of the White House suing an entire district court in the name of the United States of America underscored just how rancorous relations between the two branches had become.
Judge Thomas T. Cullen, who normally sits in Roanoke, Va., is presiding over the case because all 15 federal judges in Maryland were named as defendants.
Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui recently pushed back against Justice Department prosecutors for trying to convince him that he needed to be “highly deferential” to their request to keep a search warrant sealed.
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