The U.S. Justice Department last week “emphatically” struck back at a Texas federal trial judge who imposed sanctions for alleged attorney misconduct in a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s immigration policies.

The Justice Department urged U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen to stay his sanctions order — which includes mandatory ethics training for potentially thousands of Main Justice lawyers in Washington — to give the government the opportunity to challenge it.

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