Trump Appointed Judge Reminds Him That He Is Not The King

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"Although some tension between the coordinate branches of government is a hallmark of our constitutional system, this concerted effort by the Executive to smear and impugn individual judges who rule against it is both unprecedented and unfortunate." United States District Court Judge Thomas Cullen, a Trump appointee.

Trump appointed Judge Cullen made this statement while dismissing an unprecedented Trump lawsuit against all 14 federal judges in the United States District of Maryland. With those judges recused from ruling in their own lawsuit the 4th Circuit assigned the case to Judge Cullen in the Western District of Virginia. You can read the decision HERE.

Judge Cullen rejected Trump's suit on four independent legal grounds.

-The court lacks standing as there is common law remedy allowing one judge to enjoin another judge.

-more-

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/26/2340338/-Trump-Appointed-Judge-Reminds-Him-That-He-Is-Not-The-King

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1. Will he fire him too...................

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2. He will get his buddy to look into his mortgages

Find some technicality and then demand he resign.

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3. K&R

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4. Deadline: Legal Blog--Trump appointee calls out Trump administration's efforts to 'smear' judges

Judge Thomas Cullen called executive officials’ remarks in recent months “both unprecedented and unfortunate.”

Trump appointee calls out Trump administration’s efforts to ‘smear’ judges www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

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Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-judges-thomas-cullen-smear-judiciary-rcna227238

President Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by his administration’s attempts to bend or break the law and lashing out at judges who stand in the way. The administration’s remarks against judges led one of Trump’s own judicial appointees to speak out in a published opinion on Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen noted that in recent months, executive officials and their spokespeople “have described federal district judges across the country as ‘left-wing,’ ‘liberal,’ ‘activists,’ ‘radical,’ ‘politically minded,’ ‘rogue,’ ‘unhinged,’ ‘outrageous, overzealous, [and] unconstitutional,’ ‘[c]rooked,’ and worse.”......

But he wrote that “this concerted effort by the Executive to smear and impugn individual judges who rule against it is both unprecedented and unfortunate.”......

“Much as the Executive fights the characterization, a lawsuit by the executive branch of government against the judicial branch for the exercise of judicial power is not ordinary,” Cullen wrote in dismissing the case, adding: “Whatever the merits of its grievance with the judges of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, the Executive must find a proper way to raise those concerns.”,,,,,,

Notably, Cullen cited the Abrego case in his ruling Tuesday. Specifically, he cited an opinion from April by appellate Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee who has likewise called out the administration’s actions.

Cullen and Wilkinson haven’t been the only GOP appointees to do so. It’s unlikely they’ll be the last.