The Justice Department sued Maryland on July 9 to block a state law barring local officers from asking about immigration status or holding people for federal pickup without a warrant.

Maryland is now one of more than 20 cities, counties, and states the department has sued since January 2025, a tally that reached 27 lawsuits this month, according to Justice Department litigation records reported by Stateline on July 17. Six of those suits, against Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, a Michigan county, and Philadelphia, were filed in the past three months alone. Not one of the sued jurisdictions has told their own taxpayers, in a document any of them would actually read, what losing costs.