SCOOP: House Judiciary Seeks "Complete Security Funding" for Federal Judges

Raskin wants protection for judges as political threats escalate following deportation ruling.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) sharply criticized what he described as a rising climate of intimidation against federal judges Tuesday, following incendiary remarks by Trump adviser Stephen Miller in the wake of a contentious Supreme Court decision on migrant deportations.

The controversy erupted after the high court ruled Monday to lift a lower court’s injunction that had temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting migrants to so-called “third countries”—nations they have no connection to—without offering them an opportunity to assert the dangers they might face there.

But Boston-based U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, who originally issued the injunction on April 18, clarified after the ruling that the Supreme Court's unsigned order did not invalidate his more recent May 21 decision, which halted the deportation of a group of Sudanese nationals to politically unstable South Sudan. The administration had been attempting to fast-track the deportations, even as Mur…